{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Still,” I said, “I do not quite understand about the time\r\nof deceit, and luxury, and torture; explain it to me more\r\nclearly.” He answered, and said to me, “Your folly is persistent;\r\nand you do not wish to purify your heart, and serve\r\nGod. Have a care,” he added, “lest the time be fulfilled,\r\nand you be found foolish. Hear now,” he added, “as you\r\ndesire, that you may understand these things. He who\r\nindulges in luxury, and is deceived for one day, and who\r\ndoes what he wishes, is clothed with much foolishness, and\r\ndoes not understand the act which he does until the morrow;\r\nfor he forgets what he did the day before. For luxury and\r\ndeceit have no memories, on account of the folly with which\r\nthey are clothed; but when punishment and torture cleave to\r\na man for one day, he is punished and tortured for a year;\r\nfor punishment and torture have powerful memories. While\r\ntortured and punished, therefore, for a whole year, he remembers\r\nat last<a id=\"r1728\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1728\"><sup>[1728]</sup></a> his luxury and deceit, and knows that on\r\ntheir account he suffers evil. Every man, therefore, who is\r\nluxurious and deceived is thus tormented, because, although\r\nhaving life, they have given themselves over to death.”\r\n“What kinds of luxury, sir,” I asked, “are hurtful?”\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_393\">393</span>“Every act of a man which he performs with pleasure,” he\r\nreplied, “is an act of luxury; for the sharp-tempered man,\r\nwhen gratifying his tendency, indulges in luxury; and the\r\nadulterer, and the drunkard, and the backbiter, and the liar,\r\nand the covetous man, and the thief, and he who does things\r\nlike these, gratifies his peculiar propensity, and in so doing\r\nindulges in luxury. All these acts of luxury are hurtful to\r\nthe servants of God. On account of these deceits, therefore,\r\ndo they suffer, who are punished and tortured. And there\r\nare also acts of luxury which save men; for many who do\r\ngood indulge in luxury, being carried away by their own\r\npleasure: this luxury, however, is beneficial to the servants\r\nof God, and gains life for such a man; but the injurious acts\r\nof luxury before enumerated bring tortures and punishment\r\nupon them; and if they continue in them and do not repent,\r\nthey bring death upon themselves.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE SIXTH. Of the two classes of voluptuous men, and of their death, falling away, and the duration of their punishment."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-730"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"08aa0a2fea2095039c5a33a9284045006583789fb9bcda4461a2ef1a31f02f28","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-f1728","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":"f1728","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1728\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1728\">1728</a>. </span>ποτὲ.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1728","text_sha256":"5d2eee9a78a6f8881cc89975a74c8c084d2557f86fca7bbc2d0a4099e0e07d2b","verified":false,"work_id":null}