Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And he said to me, “Do you see this shepherd?” “I see\r\nhim, sir,” I said. “This,” he answered, “is the angel of\r\nluxury and deceit: he wears out the souls of the servants of\r\nGod, and perverts them from the truth, deceiving them with\r\nwicked desires, through which they will perish; for they\r\nforget the commandments of the living God, and walk in\r\ndeceits and empty luxuries; and they are ruined by the angel,\r\nsome being brought to death, others to corruption.”<a id=\"r1718\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1718\"><sup>[1718]</sup></a> I said to\r\nhim, “Sir, I do not know the meaning of these words, ‘to\r\ndeath, and to corruption.’” “Listen,” he said. “The sheep\r\nwhich you saw merry and leaping about, are those which have\r\ntorn themselves away from God for ever, and have delivered\r\nthemselves over to luxuries and deceits [<a id=\"r1719\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1719\"><sup>[1719]</sup></a>of this world.\r\nAmong them there is no return to life through repentance,\r\nbecause they have added to their other sins, and blasphemed\r\nthe name of the Lord. Such men, therefore, are appointed\r\nunto death.<a id=\"r1720\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1720\"><sup>[1720]</sup></a> And the sheep which you saw not leaping, but\r\nfeeding in one place, are they who have delivered themselves\r\nover to luxury and deceit], but have committed no blasphemy\r\nagainst the Lord. These have been perverted from the\r\ntruth: among them there is the hope of repentance, by which\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_390\">390</span>it is possible to live. Corruption, then, has a hope of a kind\r\nof renewal,<a id=\"r1721\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1721\"><sup>[1721]</sup></a> but death has everlasting ruin.” Again I went\r\nforward a little way, and he showed me a tall shepherd,\r\nsomewhat savage in his appearance, clothed in a white goatskin,\r\nand having a wallet on his shoulders, and a very hard staff\r\nwith branches, and a large whip. And he had a very sour\r\nlook, so that I was afraid of him, so forbidding was his aspect.\r\nThis shepherd, accordingly, was receiving the sheep from the\r\nyoung shepherd, those, viz., that were rioting and luxuriating,\r\nbut not leaping; and he cast them into a precipitous place,\r\nfull of thistles and thorns, so that it was impossible to extricate\r\nthe sheep from the thorns and thistles; but they were\r\ncompletely entangled amongst them. These, accordingly,\r\nthus entangled, pastured amongst the thorns and thistles, and\r\nwere exceedingly miserable, being beaten by him; and he\r\ndrove them hither and thither, and gave them no rest; and,\r\naltogether, these sheep were in a wretched plight.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE SIXTH. Of the two classes of voluptuous men, and of their death, falling away, and the duration of their punishment."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-727"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0a1a5ee0bcd22d4c666a369fd32c281dbd750cf61cfad08bd55ddad82334bdbb","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-f1719","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":"f1719","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1719\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1719\">1719</a>.  </span><i>Of ... deceit</i>, omitted in Lips. Our translation is made from the Vat.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1719","text_sha256":"7dd8ca1a7f724bb9a6716ab7405de535d3ca7f22b93e9003bdef98bf42f59e2d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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