Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now after I had passed by the wild beast, and had moved\r\nforward about thirty feet, lo! a virgin meets me, adorned as\r\nif she were proceeding from the bridal chamber, clothed\r\nentirely in white, and with white sandals, and veiled up to\r\nher forehead, and her head was covered by a hood. And she\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_346\">346</span>had white hair. I knew from my former visions that this\r\nwas the Church, and I became more joyful. She saluted me,\r\nand said, “Hail, O man!” And I returned her salutation,\r\nand said, “Lady, hail!” And she answered, and said to\r\nme, “Has nothing crossed your path?” I say, “I was met\r\nby a beast of such a size that it could destroy peoples, but\r\nthrough the power of the Lord<a id=\"r1618\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1618\"><sup>[1618]</sup></a> and His great mercy I\r\nescaped from it.” “Well did you escape from it,” says she,\r\n“because you cast your care<a id=\"r1619\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1619\"><sup>[1619]</sup></a> on God,<a id=\"r1620\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1620\"><sup>[1620]</sup></a> and opened your heart\r\nto the Lord, believing that you can be saved by no other\r\nthan by His great and glorious name. On this account the\r\nLord has sent His angel, who has rule over the beasts, and\r\nwhose name is Thegri,<a id=\"r1621\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1621\"><sup>[1621]</sup></a> and has shut up its mouth, so that it\r\ncannot tear you. You have escaped from great tribulation\r\non account of your faith, and because you did not doubt in\r\nthe presence of such a beast. Go, therefore, and tell the\r\nelect of the Lord<a id=\"r1622\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1622\"><sup>[1622]</sup></a> His mighty deeds, and say to them that\r\nthis beast is a type of the great tribulation that is coming. If\r\nthen ye prepare yourselves, and repent with all your heart,\r\nand turn to the Lord, it will be possible for you to escape it,\r\nif your heart be pure and spotless, and ye spend the rest of the\r\ndays of your life in serving the Lord blamelessly. Cast your\r\ncares upon the Lord, and He will direct them. Trust the\r\nLord, ye who doubt, for He is all-powerful, and can turn His\r\nanger away from you, and send scourges<a id=\"r1623\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1623\"><sup>[1623]</sup></a> on the doubters.\r\nWoe to those who hear these words, and despise them: better\r\nwere it for them not to have been born.”<a id=\"r1624\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1624\"><sup>[1624]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION FOURTH. CONCERNING THE TRIAL AND TRIBULATION THAT ARE TO COME UPON MEN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-686"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4e18d72ae452d8bd4310f8633a558850990ac7312f08f725ae8af52da6d89422","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-f1620","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":"f1620","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1620\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1620\">1620</a>.  </span><i>God.</i> The Lord.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1620","text_sha256":"91c2697a9749002fe220b22ba2c8dd7c73aff75ac454b698943150be01f29fe6","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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