Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Foremost of all is the desire after another’s wife or\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_371\">371</span>husband, and after extravagance, and many useless dainties\r\nand drinks, and many other foolish luxuries; for all luxury\r\nis foolish and empty in the servants of God. These, then,\r\nare the evil desires which slay the servants of God. For this\r\nevil desire is the daughter of the devil. You must refrain\r\nfrom evil desires, that by refraining ye may live to God.<a id=\"r1679\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1679\"><sup>[1679]</sup></a>\r\nBut as many as are mastered by them, and do not resist them,\r\nwill perish at last, for these desires are fatal. Put you on,\r\nthen, the desire of righteousness; and arming yourself with\r\nthe fear of the Lord, resist them. For the fear of the Lord\r\ndwells in good desire. But if evil desire see you armed\r\nwith the fear of God,<a id=\"r1680\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1680\"><sup>[1680]</sup></a> and resisting it, it will flee far from\r\nyou, and it will no longer appear to you, for it fears your\r\narmour. Go, then, garlanded with the crown which you have\r\ngained for victory over it, to the desire of righteousness,\r\nand, delivering up to it the prize which you have received,\r\nserve it even as it wishes.<a id=\"r1681\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1681\"><sup>[1681]</sup></a> If you serve good desire, and be\r\nsubject to it, you will gain the mastery over evil desire, and\r\nmake it subject to you even as you wish.”<a id=\"r1682\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1682\"><sup>[1682]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT TWELFTH. On the twofold desire. The commandments of God can be kept, and believers ought not to fear the devil."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-709"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"694edbd1d108f014b9c99c081ca886805a6af884de0270fd96bea7dc5312a8c1","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-f1679","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":"f1679","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1679\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1679\">1679</a>.  </span><i>For ... God.</i> This desire, therefore, is wicked and destructive,\r\nbringing death on the servants of God. Whoever, therefore, shall\r\nabstain from evil desire, shall live to God.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1679","text_sha256":"8b205e009ae47a8677ddd90a6b57b7a11d8fd15be4e0510068472e34db3d7a09","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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