{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Now the other stones which you saw cast far away\r\nfrom the tower, and falling upon the public road and rolling\r\nfrom it into pathless places, are those who have indeed believed,\r\nbut through doubt have abandoned the true road.\r\nThinking, then, that they could find a better, they wander\r\nand become wretched, and enter upon pathless places. But\r\nthose which fell into the fire and were burned, are those who\r\nhave departed for ever from the living God; nor does the\r\nthought of repentance ever come into their hearts, on account\r\nof their devotion to their lusts and to the crimes which they\r\ncommitted. Do you wish to know who are the others which\r\nfell near the waters, but could not be rolled into them?\r\nThese are they who have heard the word, and wish to be\r\nbaptized in the name of the Lord; but when the chastity\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_339\">339</span>demanded by the truth comes into their recollection, they\r\ndraw back,<a id=\"r1600\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1600\"><sup>[1600]</sup></a> and again walk after their own wicked desires.”\r\nShe finished her exposition of the tower. But I, shameless\r\nas I yet was, asked her, “Is repentance possible for all those\r\nstones which have been cast away and did not fit into the\r\nbuilding of the tower, and will they yet have a place in this\r\ntower?” “Repentance,” said she, “is yet possible, but in\r\nthis tower they cannot find a suitable place. But in another\r\nand much inferior place they will be laid, and that, too, only\r\nwhen they have been tortured and completed the days of their\r\nsins. And on this account will they be transferred, because\r\nthey have partaken of the righteous Word. And then only\r\nwill they be removed from their punishments when the thought\r\nof repenting of the evil deeds which they have done has\r\ncome into their hearts. But if it does not come into their\r\nhearts, they will not be saved, on account of the hardness of\r\ntheir heart.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION THIRD. CONCERNING THE BUILDING OF THE TRIUMPHANT CHURCH, AND THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF REPROBATE MEN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-677"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d14d4133b2e6d18f0e4947b60e3fa2e9d185c8550efb75ec79c65bd2fd38047d","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-f1600","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":"f1600","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1600\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1600\">1600</a>. </span>The words “draw back” are represented in Greek by the word elsewhere\r\ntranslated “repent;” μετανοεῖν is thus used for a change of mind,\r\neither from evil to good, or good to evil.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1600","text_sha256":"eaaa482620c573e317833392f213462563f2aff16d7eab223ea8e17ad839198e","verified":false,"work_id":null}