{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“I rejoice, sir,” I said, “to hear this explanation.” “Hear,”\r\nagain he replied: “Keep this flesh pure and stainless, that the\r\nSpirit which inhabits it may bear witness to it, and your flesh\r\nmay be justified. See that the thought never arise in your\r\nmind that this flesh of yours is corruptible, and you misuse\r\nit by any act of defilement. If you defile your flesh, you\r\nwill also defile the Holy Spirit; and if you defile your flesh\r\n[and spirit], you will not live.” “And if any one, sir,” I\r\nsaid, “has been hitherto ignorant, before he heard these\r\nwords, how can such a man be saved who has defiled his\r\nflesh?” “Respecting former sins of ignorance,” he said, “God\r\nalone is able to heal them, for to Him belongs all power.\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_388\">388</span>[But be on your guard now, and the all-powerful and compassionate\r\nGod will heal former transgressions<a id=\"r1715\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1715\"><sup>[1715]</sup></a>], if for the\r\ntime to come you defile not your body nor your spirit; for\r\nboth are common, and cannot be defiled, the one without the\r\nother: keep both therefore pure, and you will live unto\r\nGod.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE FIFTH. Of true fasting and its reward: also of purity of body."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-725"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"534a2a2055109cd8245c322c3ee2edc37c0ac6f346a2c5951bfebccdcb186528","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-f1715","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":"f1715","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1715\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1715\">1715</a>. </span>Omitted in Lips. Æth. has simply, “But be on your guard now.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1715","text_sha256":"51e0e5dca7e28151f381a7edf6bf9bb7c49638cc58f007c00999a7d461b11f11","verified":false,"work_id":null}