{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Twenty days after the former vision I saw another vision,\r\nbrethren—a representation of the tribulation that is to come.\r\nI was going to a country house along the Campanian road.\r\nNow the house lay about ten furlongs from the public road.\r\nThe district is one rarely<a id=\"r1612\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1612\"><sup>[1612]</sup></a> traversed. And as I walked alone,\r\nI prayed the Lord to complete the revelations which He had\r\nmade to me through His holy Church, that He might strengthen\r\nme,<a id=\"r1613\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1613\"><sup>[1613]</sup></a> and give repentance to all His servants who were going\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_345\">345</span>astray, that His great and glorious name might be glorified\r\nbecause He vouchsafed to show me His marvels.<a id=\"r1614\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1614\"><sup>[1614]</sup></a> And while I\r\nwas glorifying Him and giving Him thanks, a voice, as it were,\r\nanswered me, “Doubt not, Hermas;” and I began to think\r\nwith myself, and to say, “What reason have I to doubt—I\r\nwho have been established by the Lord, and who have seen\r\nsuch glorious sights?” I advanced a little, brethren, and, lo!\r\nI see dust rising even to the heavens. I began to say to\r\nmyself, “Are cattle approaching and raising the dust?” It\r\nwas about a furlong’s distance from me. And, lo! I see\r\nthe dust rising more and more, so that I imagined that it\r\nwas something sent from God. But the sun now shone out\r\na little, and, lo! I see a mighty beast like a whale, and out\r\nof its mouth fiery locusts proceeded. But the size of that\r\nbeast was about a hundred feet, and it had a head like an\r\nurn.<a id=\"r1615\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1615\"><sup>[1615]</sup></a> I began to weep, and to call on the Lord to rescue me\r\nfrom it. Then I remembered the word which I had heard,\r\n“Doubt not, O Hermas.” Clothed, therefore, my brethren,\r\nwith faith in the Lord,<a id=\"r1616\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1616\"><sup>[1616]</sup></a> and remembering the great things\r\nwhich He had taught me, I boldly faced the beast. Now that\r\nbeast came on with such noise and force, that it could itself\r\nhave destroyed a city.<a id=\"r1617\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1617\"><sup>[1617]</sup></a> I came near it, and the monstrous\r\nbeast stretched itself out on the ground, and showed nothing\r\nbut its tongue, and did not stir at all until I had passed by\r\nit. Now the beast had four colours on its head—black, then\r\nfiery and bloody, then golden, and lastly white.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION FOURTH. CONCERNING THE TRIAL AND TRIBULATION THAT ARE TO COME UPON MEN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-685"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"04e1bfc902e155fd5f071252b285712cf53abe47c2a25b08242e7969bf82c1f3","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-f1617","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":"f1617","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1617\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1617\">1617</a>. </span>The Vat. adds: with a stroke.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1617","text_sha256":"bd9ed990b56841e1d830f37813fd0b7625bc218dfe7371e75dced95bc318a266","verified":false,"work_id":null}