Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“How, sir,” I said, “did they become worse, after having\r\nknown God?”<a id=\"r1763\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1763\"><sup>[1763]</sup></a> “He that does not know God,” he answered,\r\n“and practises evil, receives a certain chastisement for his\r\nwickedness; but he that has known God, ought not any\r\nlonger to do evil, but to do good. If, accordingly, when he\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_422\">422</span>ought to do good, he do evil, does not he appear to do greater\r\nevil than he who does not know God? For this reason, they\r\nwho have not known God and do evil are condemned to death;\r\nbut they who have known God, and have seen His mighty\r\nworks, and still continue in evil, shall be chastised doubly,\r\nand shall die for ever. In this way, then, will the church\r\nof God be purified. For as you saw the stones rejected from\r\nthe tower, and delivered to the evil spirits, and cast out thence,\r\nso [they also shall be cast out, and<a id=\"r1764\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1764\"><sup>[1764]</sup></a>] there shall be one body\r\nof the purified, as the tower also became, as it were, of one\r\nstone after its purification. In like manner also shall it be\r\nwith the church of God, after it has been purified, and has\r\nrejected the wicked, and the hypocrites, and the blasphemers,\r\nand the waverers, and those who commit wickedness of different\r\nkinds. After these have been cast away, the church\r\nof God shall be one body, of one mind, of one understanding,\r\nof one faith, of one love. And then the Son of God will be\r\nexceeding glad, and shall rejoice over them, because He has\r\nreceived His people pure.” “All these things, sir,” I said, “are\r\ngreat and glorious.</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-760"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fba52df5491aa1faafd6bec3a93b8cb590aacae18766eabf7e319a0d60857036","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-f1764","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":"f1764","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1764\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1764\">1764</a>.  </span>Omitted in Vat., Æth., Lips.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1764","text_sha256":"de5e72fffb85633fa7c1092c8fb29094db35cd4c177672f2678153591d5dda4d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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