{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">On showing me these visions, she wished to retire. I\r\nsaid to her, “What is the use of my having seen all this,\r\nwhile I do not know what it means?” She said to me,\r\n“You are a cunning fellow, wishing to know everything\r\nthat relates to the tower.” “Even so, O Lady,” said I, “that\r\nI may tell it to my brethren, that, hearing this, they may\r\nknow the Lord in much glory.”<a id=\"r1590\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1590\"><sup>[1590]</sup></a> And she said, “Many\r\nindeed shall hear, and hearing, some shall be glad, and some\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_335\">335</span>shall weep. But even these, if they hear and repent, shall\r\nalso rejoice. Hear, then, the parables of the tower; for I\r\nwill reveal all to you, and give me no more trouble in regard\r\nto revelation: for these revelations have an end, for they\r\nhave been completed. But you will not cease praying for\r\nrevelations, for you are shameless. The tower which you\r\nsee building is myself, the Church, who have appeared to you\r\nnow and on the former occasion. Ask, then, whatever you\r\nlike in regard to the tower, and I will reveal it to you, that\r\nyou may rejoice with the saints.” I said unto her, “Lady,\r\nsince you have vouchsafed to reveal all to me this once,\r\nreveal it.” She said to me, “Whatsoever ought to be\r\nrevealed, will be revealed; only let your heart be with God,<a id=\"r1591\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1591\"><sup>[1591]</sup></a>\r\nand doubt not whatsoever you shall see.” I asked her,\r\n“Why was the tower built upon the waters, O Lady?”\r\nShe answered, “I told you before,<a id=\"r1592\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1592\"><sup>[1592]</sup></a> and you still inquire\r\ncarefully: therefore inquiring you shall find the truth.\r\nHear then why the tower is built upon the waters. It is\r\nbecause your life has been, and will be, saved through water.\r\nFor the tower was founded on the word of the almighty and\r\nglorious Name, and it is kept together by the invisible power\r\nof the Lord.”<a id=\"r1593\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1593\"><sup>[1593]</sup></a></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-673"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1109dd0e410bfa0fc51f941665d61ec83ecf8f89ca845a360420fe8c9cb08e52","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-f1593","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":"f1593","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1593\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1593\">1593</a>. </span><i>The Lord.</i> God.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1593","text_sha256":"ac77c9b5e861385cfeda430fc92361f78091790a0e401d748aef2015418582fe","verified":false,"work_id":null}