{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“But as for you, Hermas, remember not the wrongs done to\r\nyou by your children, nor neglect your sister, that they may be\r\ncleansed from their former sins. For they will be instructed\r\nwith righteous instruction, if you remember not the wrongs\r\nthey have done you. For the remembrance of wrongs worketh\r\ndeath.<a id=\"r1579\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1579\"><sup>[1579]</sup></a> And you, Hermas, have endured great personal<a id=\"r1580\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1580\"><sup>[1580]</sup></a> tribulations\r\non account of the transgressions of your house, because\r\nyou did not attend to them, but were careless,<a id=\"r1581\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1581\"><sup>[1581]</sup></a> and engaged\r\nin your wicked transactions. But<a id=\"r1582\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1582\"><sup>[1582]</sup></a> you are saved, because\r\nyou did not depart from the living God, and on account of\r\nyour simplicity and great self-control. These have saved\r\nyou, if you remain stedfast. And they will save all who act\r\nin the same manner, and walk in guilelessness and simplicity.\r\nThose who possess such virtues will wax strong against every\r\nform of wickedness, and will abide unto eternal life. Blessed\r\nare all they who practise righteousness, for they shall never\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_331\">331</span>be destroyed. Now you will tell Maximus: Lo!<a id=\"r1583\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1583\"><sup>[1583]</sup></a> tribulation\r\ncometh on. If it seemeth good to thee, deny again. The\r\nLord is near to them who return unto Him, as it is written\r\nin Eldad and Modat,<a id=\"r1584\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1584\"><sup>[1584]</sup></a> who prophesied to the people in the\r\nwilderness.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION SECOND. AGAIN, OF HIS NEGLECT IN CHASTISING HIS TALKATIVE WIFE AND HIS LUSTFUL SONS, AND OF HIS CHARACTER."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-669"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f0c7a240d66a3fd8b8516c92bc05229907754fedf88807ad4b0320a1963f935e","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-f1581","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":"f1581","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1581\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1581\">1581</a>. </span><i>You ... careless.</i> You neglected them as if they did not belong to\r\nyou.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1581","text_sha256":"5941ef23906de74dc3299cbb8d4337dd88de8c60aa968b8ac4a9d34da6e400f4","verified":false,"work_id":null}