Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The angel<a id=\"r1779\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1779\"><sup>[1779]</sup></a> then said to me, “Conduct yourself manfully\r\nin this service, and make known to every one the great things\r\nof God,<a id=\"r1780\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1780\"><sup>[1780]</sup></a> and you will have favour in this ministry. Whoever,\r\ntherefore, shall walk in these commandments, shall have\r\nlife, and will be happy in his life; but whosoever shall neglect\r\nthem shall not have life, and will be unhappy in this life.\r\nEnjoin all, who are able to act rightly, not to cease well-doing;\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_435\">435</span>for, to practise good works is useful to them. And I say that\r\nevery man ought to be saved from inconveniences. For both\r\nhe who is in want, and he who suffers inconveniences in his\r\ndaily life, is in great torture and necessity. Whoever, therefore,\r\nrescues a soul of this kind from necessity, will gain for\r\nhimself great joy. For he who is harassed by inconveniences\r\nof this kind, suffers equal torture with him who is in chains.\r\nMoreover many, on account of calamities of this sort, when\r\nthey could not endure them, hasten their own deaths. Whoever,\r\nthen, knows a calamity of this kind afflicting a man, and\r\ndoes not save him, commits a great sin, and becomes guilty of\r\nhis blood. Do good works, therefore, ye who have received\r\ngood from the Lord; lest, while ye delay to do them, the\r\nbuilding of the tower be finished, and you be rejected from\r\nthe edifice: there is now no other tower a-building. For on\r\nyour account was the work of building suspended. Unless,\r\nthen, you make haste to do rightly, the tower will be completed,\r\nand you will be excluded.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE TENTH. Concerning Repentance and Alms-giving."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-782"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1c557e86bbdddb5ec9dbec7e70b762492d6f57ce6fc9a2cb5f08441da4fe1ac1","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-f1780","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":"f1780","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1780\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1780\">1780</a>.  </span><i>God</i>, common version; Lord, <i>Æth.</i>, <i>Pal.</i>; Lord God, <i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1780","text_sha256":"bd0eebab7a912cd148ebb0c54bed1823fbe2beb5d31d0d23537584eaa119902d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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