Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“What have they borne?” said I. “Listen,” said she:\r\n“scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts,\r\nfor God’s name’s sake. On this account is assigned to\r\nthem the division of sanctification on the right hand, and\r\nto every one who shall suffer for God’s name: to the rest is\r\nassigned the division on the left. But both for those who\r\nsit on the right, and those who sit on the left, there are the\r\nsame gifts and promises; only those sit on the right, and\r\nhave some glory. You then are eager to sit on the right\r\nwith them, but your shortcomings are many. But you will\r\nbe cleansed from your shortcomings; and all who are not\r\ngiven to doubts shall be cleansed from all their iniquities up\r\ntill this day.” Saying this, she wished to go away. But\r\nfalling down at her feet, I begged her by the Lord that she\r\nwould show me the vision which she had promised to show\r\nme. And then she again took hold of me by the hand, and\r\nraised me, and made me sit on the seat to the left; and lifting\r\nup a splendid rod, she said to me, “Do you see something\r\ngreat?” And I say, “Lady, I see nothing.” She said to me,\r\n“Lo! do you not see opposite to you a great tower, built upon\r\nthe waters, of splendid square stones?” For the tower was\r\nbuilt square by those six young men who had come with her.\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_334\">334</span>But myriads of men were carrying stones to it, some dragging\r\nthem from the depths, others removing them from the\r\nland, and they handed them to these six young men. They\r\nwere taking them and building; and those of the stones that\r\nwere dragged out of the depths, they placed in the building\r\njust as they were: for they were polished and fitted exactly\r\ninto the other stones, and became so united one with another\r\nthat the lines of juncture could not be perceived. And in\r\nthis way the building of the tower looked as if it were made\r\nout of one stone. Those stones, however, which were taken\r\nfrom the earth suffered a different fate; for the young men\r\nrejected some of them, some they fitted into the building,\r\nand some they cut down, and cast far away from the tower.\r\nMany other stones, however, lay around the tower, and the\r\nyoung men did not use them in building; for some of them\r\nwere rough, others had cracks in them, others had been\r\nmade too short,<a id=\"r1589\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1589\"><sup>[1589]</sup></a> and others were white and round, but did\r\nnot fit into the building of the tower. Moreover, I saw\r\nother stones thrown far away from the tower, and falling\r\ninto the public road; yet they did not remain on the road,\r\nbut were rolled into a pathless place. And I saw others\r\nfalling into the fire and burning, others falling close to the\r\nwater, and yet not capable of being rolled into the water,\r\nthough they wished to be rolled down, and to enter the\r\nwater.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION THIRD. CONCERNING THE BUILDING OF THE TRIUMPHANT CHURCH, AND THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF REPROBATE MEN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-672"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"46cb93b79b48740746fa8c11b5fc68be59b05ef9d5fc38965fdd8707ad39e497","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-f1589","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":"f1589","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1589\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1589\">1589</a>.  </span><i>Others had been made too short</i>, not in Vat.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1589","text_sha256":"c31b17c437c0fde8de1c72882f29ae3fdf2fd4b48fe644ecbaaec44632af7eef","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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