{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">He says to me, “You know that you who are the\r\nservants of God dwell in a strange land; for your\r\ncity is far away from this one. If, then,” he\r\ncontinues, “you know your city in which you\r\nare to dwell, why do ye here provide lands, and make expensive\r\npreparations, and accumulate dwellings and useless\r\nbuildings? He who makes such preparations for this city\r\ncannot return again to his own. Oh foolish, and unstable,\r\nand miserable man! Dost thou not understand that all\r\nthese things belong to another, and are under the power of\r\nanother? for the lord of this city will say, ‘I do not wish\r\nthee to dwell in my city; but depart from this city, because\r\nthou obeyest not my laws.’ Thou, therefore, although having\r\nfields and houses, and many other things, when cast out\r\nby him, what wilt thou do with thy land, and house, and\r\nother possessions which thou hast gathered to thyself? For\r\nthe lord of this country justly says to thee, ‘Either obey\r\nmy laws or depart from my dominion.’ What, then, dost\r\nthou intend to do, having a law in thine own city, on account\r\nof thy lands, and the rest of thy possessions?<a id=\"r1692\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1692\"><sup>[1692]</sup></a> Thou shalt\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_376\">376</span>altogether deny thy law, and walk according to the law of\r\nthis city. See lest it be to thy hurt to deny thy law;<a id=\"r1693\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1693\"><sup>[1693]</sup></a> for if\r\nthou shalt desire to return to thy city, thou wilt not be received,\r\nbecause thou hast denied the law of thy city, but wilt\r\nbe excluded from it. Have a care, therefore: as one living\r\nin a foreign land, make no further preparations for thyself\r\nthan such merely as may be sufficient; and be ready, when\r\nthe master of this city shall come to cast thee out for\r\ndisobeying his law, to leave his city, and to depart to thine\r\nown, and to obey thine own law without being exposed to\r\nannoyance, but in great joy. Have a care, then, ye who\r\nserve the Lord, and have Him in your heart, that ye work\r\nthe works of God, remembering His commandments and\r\npromises which He promised, and believe that He will bring\r\nthem to pass if His commandments be observed. Instead\r\nof lands, therefore, buy afflicted souls, according as each one\r\nis able, and visit<a id=\"r1694\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1694\"><sup>[1694]</sup></a> widows and orphans, and do not overlook\r\nthem; and spend your wealth and all your preparations,\r\nwhich ye received from the Lord, upon such lands and houses.\r\nFor to this end did the Master make you rich, that you might\r\nperform these services unto Him; and it is much better to\r\npurchase such lands, and possessions, and houses, as you\r\nwill find in your own city, when you come to reside in it.\r\nThis is a noble and sacred expenditure, attended neither with\r\nsorrow nor fear, but with joy. Do not practise the expenditure\r\nof the heathen,<a id=\"r1695\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1695\"><sup>[1695]</sup></a> for it is injurious to you who are the\r\nservants of God; but practise an expenditure of your own,\r\nin which ye can rejoice; and do not corrupt<a id=\"r1696\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1696\"><sup>[1696]</sup></a> nor touch what\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_377\">377</span>is another’s, nor covet it, for it is an evil thing to covet the\r\ngoods of other men; but work thine own work, and thou wilt\r\nbe saved.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE FIRST. As in this world we have no abiding city, we ought to seek one to come."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-715"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ad4bb788be83d66c3857d68be9171ab57acec501e5a163dc0b27e7fe172de7c8","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-f1696","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":"f1696","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1696\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1696\">1696</a>. </span>The Vatican, rendering παραχαράσσετε, <i>adulterare</i>, proceeds as if\r\nthe reference were to adultery. “Neither touch another man’s wife,\r\nnor lust after her, but desire your own work, and you will be saved.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1696","text_sha256":"902b2225bb46b13b45020e13bb2ae8578c5e2eae4ad287d0f5f1b5caa7abc247","verified":false,"work_id":null}