{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Again he said to me, “Love the truth, and let nothing but\r\ntruth proceed from your mouth, that the spirit which God\r\nhas placed in your flesh may be found truthful before all\r\nmen; and the Lord, who dwelleth in you,<a id=\"r1632\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1632\"><sup>[1632]</sup></a> will be glorified,\r\nbecause the Lord is truthful in every word, and in Him is\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_351\">351</span>no falsehood. They therefore who lie deny the Lord, and\r\nrob Him, not giving back to Him the deposit which they\r\nhave received. For they received from Him a spirit free\r\nfrom falsehood. If they give him back this spirit untruthful,\r\nthey pollute the commandment of the Lord, and become\r\nrobbers.” On hearing these words, I wept most violently.\r\nWhen he saw me weeping, he said to me, “Why do you\r\nweep?” And I said, “Because, sir, I know not if I can be\r\nsaved.” “Why?” said he. And I said, “Because, sir, I\r\nnever spake a true word in my life, but have ever spoken\r\ncunningly to all,<a id=\"r1633\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1633\"><sup>[1633]</sup></a> and have affirmed a lie for the truth to all;\r\nand no one ever contradicted me, but credit was given to my\r\nword. How then can I live, since I have acted thus?” And\r\nhe said to me, “Your feelings are indeed right and sound,\r\nfor you ought as a servant of God to have walked in truth,\r\nand not to have joined an evil conscience with the spirit of\r\ntruth, nor to have caused sadness to the holy and true Spirit.”<a id=\"r1634\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1634\"><sup>[1634]</sup></a>\r\nAnd I said to him, “Never, sir, did I listen to these words with\r\nso much attention.” And he said to me, “Now you hear them,\r\nand keep them, that even the falsehoods which you formerly\r\ntold in your transactions may come to be believed through\r\nthe truthfulness of your present statements. For even they\r\ncan become worthy of credit. If you keep these precepts,\r\nand from this time forward you speak nothing but the truth,<a id=\"r1635\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1635\"><sup>[1635]</sup></a>\r\nit will be possible for you to obtain life. And whosoever\r\nshall hear this commandment, and depart from that great\r\nwickedness falsehood, shall live to God.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT THIRD. On avoiding falsehood, and on the repentance of Hermas for his dissimulation."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-691"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ec35a9c4a5f805fac331f5abcc7b064de432d7e2448cb2d4ad371f6ce6498c96","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-f1632","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":"f1632","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1632\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1632\">1632</a>. </span><i>Dwelleth in you.</i> Who put the spirit within you.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1632","text_sha256":"d8e01f84bf9d2c9eb3f92d639aa41b78a52ad1359cd93770f27cb2d6a1a8af48","verified":false,"work_id":null}