Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“And they who believed from the ninth mountain, which\r\nwas deserted, and had in it creeping things and wild beasts\r\nwhich destroy men, were the following: they who had the\r\nstains are servants,<a id=\"r1771\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1771\"><sup>[1771]</sup></a> who discharged their duty ill, and who\r\nplundered widows and orphans of their livelihood, and gained\r\npossessions for themselves from the ministry, which they had\r\nreceived. If, therefore, they remain under the dominion of\r\nthe same desire, they are dead, and there is no hope of life\r\nfor them; but if they repent, and finish their ministry in a\r\nholy manner, they shall be able to live. And they who were\r\ncovered with scabs are those who have denied their Lord,\r\nand have not returned to Him again; but becoming withered\r\nand desert-like, and not cleaving to the servants of God, but\r\nliving in solitude, they destroy their own souls. For as a vine,\r\nwhen left within an enclosure, and meeting with neglect, is\r\ndestroyed, and is made desolate by the weeds, and in time\r\ngrows wild, and is no longer of any use to its master, so also\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_427\">427</span>are such men as have given themselves up, and become useless\r\nto their Lord, from having contracted savage habits. These\r\nmen, therefore, have repentance in their power, unless they\r\nare found to have denied from the heart; but if any one is\r\nfound to have denied from the heart, I do not know if he\r\nmay live. And I say this not for these present days, in order\r\nthat any one who has denied may obtain repentance, for it is\r\nimpossible for him to be saved who now intends to deny his\r\nLord; but to those who denied Him long ago, repentance\r\nseems to be possible. If, therefore, any one intends to\r\nrepent, let him do so quickly, before the tower is completed;\r\nfor if not, he will be utterly destroyed by the women.\r\nAnd the chipped stones are the deceitful and the slanderers;\r\nand the wild beasts, which you saw on the ninth mountain,\r\nare the same. For as wild beasts destroy and kill a man by\r\ntheir poison, so also do the words of such men destroy and\r\nruin a man. These, accordingly, are mutilated in their faith,\r\non account of the deeds which they have done in themselves;\r\nyet some repented, and were saved. And the rest, who are\r\nof such a character, can be saved if they repent; but if they\r\ndo not repent, they will perish with those women, whose\r\nstrength they have assumed.”</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-769"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fe269192a80ee1164259b18c15e97931b91046b2f62478119cf0ccdde6b939bc","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-f1771","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":"f1771","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1771\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1771\">1771</a>.  </span>διάκονοι.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1771","text_sha256":"888c5f6b1da7135c1c8df41c6543cd53e6803d244f4e08d5338c2254c5fef172","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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