I finish all the words, all the elect will then become acquainted with them through you. You will write therefore two books, and you will send the one to Clemens and the other to Grapte.77 And Clemens will send his to foreign countries, for permission has been granted to him to do so.78 And Grapte will admonish the widows and the orphans. But you will read the words in this city, along with the presbyters who preside over the Church.” 77 Grapte is supposed to have been a deaconess. 78 [Here, as in places that follow, is to be noted a development of canon law, that could hardly have existed in the days of the Pauline Hermas. He is supposed to be a lector, who might read for the edification of the elect, if permitted by the presbyters. Grapte, the deaconess, is supposed to have charge of widows and orphans; while Clement, only, has canonical right to authenticate books to foreign churches, as the Eastern bishops were accus- tomed to authenticate canonical Scriptures to him and others. The second Hermas falls into such anachronisms innocently, but they betray the fiction of his work. Compare the Apost. Constitutions with (apocryphal) authen- tications by Clement.] 20 Vision Second. Again, of His Neglect in Chastising His Talkative Wife and…