{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Fear,” said he, “the Lord, and keep His commandments.<a id=\"r1661\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1661\"><sup>[1661]</sup></a>\r\nFor if you keep the commandments of God, you will be\r\npowerful in every action, and every one of your actions will be\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_361\">361</span>incomparable. For, fearing the Lord, you will do all things\r\nwell. This is the fear which you ought to have, that you\r\nmay be saved. But fear not the devil; for, fearing the Lord,\r\nyou will have dominion over the devil, for there is no power\r\nin him. But he in whom there is no power ought on no\r\naccount to be an object of fear; but He in whom there is\r\nglorious power is truly to be feared. For every one that has\r\npower ought to be feared; but he who has not power is\r\ndespised by all. Fear, therefore, the deeds of the devil,\r\nsince they are wicked. For, fearing the Lord, you will not\r\ndo these deeds, but will refrain from them. For fears are\r\nof two kinds: for if you do not wish to do that which is\r\nevil, fear the Lord, and you will not do it; but, again, if\r\nyou wish to do that which is good, fear the Lord, and you\r\nwill do it. Wherefore the fear of the Lord is strong, and\r\ngreat, and glorious. Fear, then, the Lord, and you will live\r\nto Him, and as many as fear Him and keep His commandments\r\nwill live to God.” “Why,”<a id=\"r1662\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1662\"><sup>[1662]</sup></a> said I, “sir, did you say\r\nin regard to those that keep His commandments, that they\r\nwill live to God?” “Because,” says he, “all creation fears\r\nthe Lord, but all creation does not keep His commandments.\r\nThey only who fear the Lord and keep His commandments\r\nhave life with God;<a id=\"r1663\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1663\"><sup>[1663]</sup></a> but as to those who keep not His commandments,\r\nthere is no life in them.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT SEVENTH. On fearing God, and not fearing the devil."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-701"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d2cc8dc8285667def2e5e8f1c65dc4a531330277b775853abf3ace4cf70e2a0b","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ECC","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eccles. xii. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1661","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":"f1661","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1661\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1661\">1661</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Ecclesiasticus\">Eccles.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1661","text_sha256":"0b9dddaddf9b7781edb62438d75b991fba1a902297e7e238f60bf0ddf03d3379","verified":false,"work_id":null}