{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">As I was going to the country<a id=\"r1567\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1567\"><sup>[1567]</sup></a> about the same time as\r\non the previous year, in my walk I recalled to memory the\r\nvision of that year. And again the Spirit carried me away,\r\nand took me to the same place where I had been the year\r\nbefore. On coming to that place, I bowed my knees and\r\nbegan to pray to the Lord, and to glorify His name, because\r\nHe had deemed me worthy, and had made known to\r\nme my former sins. On rising from prayer, I see opposite\r\nme that old woman, whom I had seen the year before, walking\r\nand reading some book. And she says to me, “Can\r\nyou carry a report of these things to the elect of God?” I\r\nsay to her, “Lady, so much I cannot retain in my memory,\r\nbut give me the book and I shall transcribe it.” “Take it,”\r\nsays she, “and you will give it back to me.” Thereupon I\r\ntook it, and going away into a certain part of the country, I\r\ntranscribed the whole of it letter by letter;<a id=\"r1568\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1568\"><sup>[1568]</sup></a> but the syllables\r\nof it I did not catch. No sooner, however, had I finished\r\nthe writing of the book, than all of a sudden it was snatched\r\nfrom my hands; but who the person was that snatched it, I\r\nsaw not.</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-667"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3d1fe8dfb7eec25faed021eada38eb08c8173c1b6d41d871ff5db61aed0b648d","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-f1568","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":"f1568","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1568\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1568\">1568</a>. </span><i>Going ... letter.</i> Now taking the book, I sat down in one place\r\nand wrote the whole of it in order.—<i>Pal.</i> In the ancient <abbr class=\"spell\"><span class=\"fss\">MSS.</span></abbr> there was\r\nnothing to mark out where one word ended and another commenced.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1568","text_sha256":"96f4cb924a249522412f986185b9d6683622781f4697a45a843b226c4ccb7ba8","verified":false,"work_id":null}