Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth " "Why, then, sir," I said, "do all these trees bear fruit, and some of them fairer than the rest? ""Listen," he said: "all who once suffered for the name of the Lord are honourable before God; and of all these the sins were remitted, because they suffered for the name of the Son of God.[46] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Thus in the Revelation of John it is said: "These are they which have not defiled their clothes with women,"[190]