{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Hear,” he answered, “about all these also. The stones\r\ntaken out of the plain and put into the building of the tower\r\ninstead of those that were rejected, are the roots of this white\r\nmountain. When, therefore, they who believed from the\r\nwhite mountain were all found guileless, the Lord of the\r\ntower commanded those from the roots of this mountain to\r\nbe cast into the building of the tower; for he knew that if\r\nthese stones were to go to the building of the tower, they\r\nwould remain bright, and not one of them become black.<a id=\"r1774\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1774\"><sup>[1774]</sup></a>\r\nBut if he had so resolved with respect to the other mountains,\r\nit would have been necessary for him to visit that tower\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_430\">430</span>again, and to cleanse it. Now all these persons were found\r\nwhite who believed, and who will yet believe, for they are of\r\nthe same race. This is a happy race, because it is innocent.\r\nHear now, further, about these round and shining stones.\r\nAll these also are from the white mountain. Hear, moreover,\r\nwhy they were found round: because their riches had obscured\r\nand darkened them a little from the truth, although they\r\nnever departed from God; nor did any evil word proceed out\r\nof their mouth, but all justice, virtue, and truth. When the\r\nLord, therefore, saw the mind of these persons, that they\r\nwere born good, and could be good, He ordered their riches\r\nto be cut down, not to be taken away for ever, that they\r\nmight be able to do some good with what was left them;\r\nand they will live unto God, because they are of a good race.\r\nTherefore were they rounded a little by the chisel, and put\r\nin the building of the tower.”</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-774"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b9eea79044edab6db974885c32827510924e491c4eff2927bfd0f6446b948a47","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-f1774","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":"f1774","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1774\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1774\">1774</a>. </span>Here ends Codex Lipsiensis. The rest of the text is from the common\r\ntranslation corrected by the Palatine and Æthiopic.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1774","text_sha256":"4d42b7c4613e52dc9a68572244247cae8d40fc002b4f48be6e17f43f6f25534c","verified":false,"work_id":null}