You see, then, that the smallest things coming from above have great power when they fall
upon the earth.224 Thus also is the Divine Spirit, which comes from above, powerful. Trust,
then, that Spirit, but have nothing to do with the other.”
224 Earth. After this the Vatican reads: Join yourself, therefore, to that which has power, and withdraw from
that one which is empty. [Hermas seems to apply to the Spirit, in carrying out his figure, those words of the
Psalmist, lxxii. 6.]
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Commandment Eleventh. The Spirit and Prophets to Be Tried by Their Works;…