{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">After I had been praying at home, and had sat down on\r\nmy couch, there entered a man of glorious aspect, dressed\r\nlike a shepherd, with a white goat’s skin, a wallet on his\r\nshoulders, and a rod in his hand, and saluted me. I returned\r\nhis salutation. And straightway he sat down beside me, and\r\nsaid to me, “I have been sent by a most venerable angel to\r\ndwell with you the remaining days of your life.” And I\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_348\">348</span>thought that he had come to tempt me, and I said to him,\r\n“Who are you? For I know him to whom I have been\r\nentrusted.” He said to me, “Do you not know me?” “No,”\r\nsaid I. “I,” said he, “am that shepherd to whom you have\r\nbeen entrusted.” And while he yet spake, his figure was\r\nchanged; and then I knew that it was he to whom I had\r\nbeen entrusted. And straightway I became confused, and\r\nfear took hold of me, and I was overpowered with deep\r\nsorrow that I had answered him so wickedly and foolishly.\r\nBut he answered, and said to me, “Do not be confounded,\r\nbut receive strength from the commandments which I am\r\ngoing to give you. For I have been sent,” said he, “to show\r\nyou again all the things which you saw before, especially\r\nthose of them which are useful to you. First of all, then,\r\nwrite down my commandments and similitudes, and you will\r\nwrite the other things as I shall show you. For this purpose,”\r\nsaid he, “I command you to write down the commandments\r\nand similitudes first, that you may read them easily,\r\nand be able to keep them.”<a id=\"r1625\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1625\"><sup>[1625]</sup></a> Accordingly I wrote down the\r\ncommandments and similitudes, exactly as he had ordered\r\nme. If then, when you have heard these, ye keep them\r\nand walk in them, and practise them with pure minds, you\r\nwill receive from the Lord all that He has promised to you.\r\nBut if, after you have heard them, ye do not repent, but\r\ncontinue to add to your sins, then shall ye receive from the\r\nLord the opposite things. All these words did the shepherd,\r\neven the angel of repentance, command me to write.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION FIFTH. CONCERNING THE COMMANDMENTS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-688"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e9fb8bbb17ab8abe69ca2e5f6060049a1f985612a9151d9f7c99f98b1c546a84","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-f1625","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":"f1625","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1625\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1625\">1625</a>. </span><i>Keep them.</i> That you may be able to keep them more easily by\r\nreading them from time to time.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1625","text_sha256":"935631b728520e8c4473521628f918985b9a535966857a42842c7818c43a040e","verified":false,"work_id":null}