{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Explain to me a little further, sir,” I said. “What is it\r\nthat you desire?” he asked. “Why, sir,” I said, “did these\r\nstones ascend out of the pit, and be applied to the building of\r\nthe tower, after having borne these spirits?” “They were\r\nobliged,” he answered, “to ascend through water in order that\r\nthey might be made alive; for, unless they laid aside the deadness\r\nof their life, they could not in any other way enter into\r\nthe kingdom of God. Accordingly, those also who fell asleep\r\nreceived the seal of the Son of God. For,” he continued,\r\n“before a man bears the name of the Son of God<a id=\"r1760\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1760\"><sup>[1760]</sup></a> he is dead;\r\nbut when he receives the seal he lays aside his deadness, and\r\nobtains life. The seal, then, is the water: they descend into\r\nthe water dead, and they arise alive. And to them, accordingly,\r\nwas this seal preached, and they made use of it that\r\nthey might enter into the kingdom of God.” “Why, sir,” I\r\nasked, “did the forty stones also ascend with them out of the\r\npit, having already received the seal?” “Because,” he said,\r\n“these apostles and teachers who preached the name of the\r\nSon of God, after falling asleep in the power and faith of the\r\nSon of God, preached it not only to those who were asleep,\r\nbut themselves also gave them the seal of the preaching.\r\nAccordingly they descended with them into the water, and\r\nagain ascended. [But these descended alive and rose up\r\nagain alive; whereas they who had previously fallen asleep descended\r\ndead, but rose up again alive.<a id=\"r1761\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1761\"><sup>[1761]</sup></a>] By these, then, were\r\nthey quickened and made to know the name of the Son of\r\nGod. For this reason also did they ascend with them, and\r\nwere fitted along with them into the building of the tower,\r\nand, untouched by the chisel, were built in along with them.\r\nFor they slept in righteousness and in great purity, but only\r\nthey had not this seal. You have accordingly the explanation\r\nof these also.”</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-758"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e6de25a8b2e417803b7d6eb6d621210cfdb5ece5fe4404dc0cb55bf6361c9b11","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-f1760","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":"f1760","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1760\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1760\">1760</a>. </span><i>The name of the Son of God.</i> The name of God.—<i>Lips.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1760","text_sha256":"5471af7628d1c01adc2c65cc72d1592208e5d84e8efe5a1e42d9c8869d89ad51","verified":false,"work_id":null}