Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“First of all, sir,” I said, “explain this to me: What is\r\nthe meaning of the rock and the gate?” “This rock,” he\r\nanswered, “and this gate are the Son of God.” “How, sir?”\r\nI said; “the rock is old, and the gate is new.” “Listen,”\r\nhe said, “and understand, O ignorant man. The Son of\r\nGod is older than all His creatures, so that He was a fellow-councillor\r\nwith the Father in His work of creation: for this\r\nreason is He old.” “And why is the gate new, sir?” I\r\nsaid. “Because,” he answered, “He became manifest in the\r\nlast days of the dispensation: for this reason the gate was\r\nmade new, that they who are to be saved by it might enter\r\ninto the kingdom of God. You saw,” he said, “that those\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_416\">416</span>stones which came in through the gate were used for the\r\nbuilding of the tower, and that those which did not come,\r\nwere again thrown back to their own place?” “I saw, sir,”\r\nI replied. “In like manner,” he continued, “no one shall\r\nenter into the kingdom of God unless he receive His holy\r\nname. For if you desire to enter into a city, and that city is\r\nsurrounded by a wall, and has but one gate, can you enter\r\ninto that city save through the gate which it has?” “Why,\r\nhow can it be otherwise, sir?” I said. “If, then, you cannot\r\nenter into the city except through its gate, so, in like\r\nmanner, a man cannot otherwise enter into the kingdom of\r\nGod than by the name of His beloved Son. You saw,”\r\nhe added, “the multitude who were building the tower?”\r\n“I saw them, sir,” I said. “Those,” he said, “are all\r\nglorious angels, and by them accordingly is the Lord surrounded.\r\nAnd the gate is the Son of God. This is the one\r\nentrance to the Lord. In no other way, then, shall any one\r\nenter in to Him except through His Son. You saw,” he\r\ncontinued, “the six men, and the tall and glorious man in\r\nthe midst of them, who walked round the tower, and rejected\r\nthe stones from the building?” “I saw him, sir,” I answered.\r\n“The glorious man,” he said, “is the Son of God, and those\r\nsix glorious angels are those who support Him on the right\r\nhand and on the left. None of these glorious angels,” he\r\ncontinued, “will enter in unto God apart from Him. Whosoever\r\ndoes not receive His<a id=\"r1756\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1756\"><sup>[1756]</sup></a> name, shall not enter into the\r\nkingdom of God.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE NINTH. The great mysteries in the building of the militant and triumphant church."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-754"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d046f49654a2bd1b47c02f09b8a345f62d20b8e816021c8590ffa7178fc81d84","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1756","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1756","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1756\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1756\">1756</a>.  </span><i>His.</i> God’s.—<i>Lips.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1756","text_sha256":"1e91d93ba359628a05504b716c326fbd3fa443796518803c073e2ccae1e46c5d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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