Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">He showed me again many trees, some budding, and others\r\nwithered. And he said to me, “Do you see these trees?”\r\n“I see, sir,” I replied, “some putting forth buds, and others\r\nwithered.” “Those,” he said, “which are budding are the\r\nrighteous who are to live in the world to come; for the coming\r\nworld is the summer<a id=\"r1702\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1702\"><sup>[1702]</sup></a> of the righteous, but the winter of sinners.\r\nWhen, therefore, the mercy of the Lord shines forth,\r\nthen shall they be made manifest who are the servants of\r\nGod, and all men shall be made manifest. For as in summer\r\nthe fruits of each individual tree appear, and it is ascertained\r\nof what sort they are, so also the fruits of the righteous shall\r\nbe manifest, and all who have been fruitful in that world shall\r\nbe made known.<a id=\"r1703\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1703\"><sup>[1703]</sup></a> But the heathen and sinners, like the\r\nwithered trees which you saw, will be found to be those who\r\nhave been withered and unfruitful in that world, and shall\r\nbe burnt as wood, and [so] made manifest, because their\r\nactions were evil during their lives. For the sinners shall\r\nbe consumed because they sinned and did not repent, and\r\nthe heathen shall be burned because they knew not Him who\r\ncreated them. Do you therefore bear fruit, that in that\r\nsummer your fruit may be known. And refrain from much\r\nbusiness, and you will never sin: for they who are occupied\r\nwith much business commit also many sins, being distracted\r\nabout their affairs, and not at all serving their Lord. How,\r\nthen,” he continued, “can such a one ask and obtain anything\r\nfrom the Lord, if he serve Him not? They who serve\r\nHim shall obtain their requests, but they who serve Him not\r\nshall receive nothing. And in the performance even of a\r\nsingle action a man can serve the Lord; for his mind will\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_381\">381</span>not be perverted from the Lord, but he will serve Him, having\r\na pure mind. If, therefore, you do these things, you shall\r\nbe able to bear fruit for the life to come. And every one\r\nwho will do these things shall bear fruit.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE FOURTH. As in summer living trees are distinguished from withered by fruit and living leaves, so in the world to come the just differ from the unjust in happiness."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-718"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d3a69ccfd6f552b6a0c32ca7e899a33d7822c5cb636df8a7202860573811a30e","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-f1703","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":"f1703","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1703\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1703\">1703</a>.  </span>The Vatican has, “And all the merry and joyful shall be restored in\r\nthat age.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1703","text_sha256":"ee963878efeb50e067624d2c093ff70269027a1a0eaa4f6b2b167cc492a84eae","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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