{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Give ear unto me, O Sons: I have brought you up in\r\nmuch simplicity, and guilelessness, and chastity, on account\r\nof the mercy of the Lord,<a id=\"r1602\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1602\"><sup>[1602]</sup></a> who has dropped His righteousness\r\ndown upon you, that ye may be made righteous and holy<a id=\"r1603\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1603\"><sup>[1603]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_341\">341</span>from all your iniquity and depravity; but you do not wish\r\nto rest from your iniquity. Now, therefore, listen to me, and\r\nbe at peace one with another, and visit each other, and bear\r\neach other’s burdens, and do not partake of God’s creatures\r\nalone,<a id=\"r1604\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1604\"><sup>[1604]</sup></a> but give abundantly of them to the needy. For some\r\nthrough the abundance of their food produce weakness in\r\ntheir flesh, and thus corrupt their flesh; while the flesh of\r\nothers who have no food is corrupted, because they have not\r\nsufficient nourishment. And on this account their bodies\r\nwaste away. This intemperance in eating is thus injurious\r\nto you who have abundance and do not distribute among\r\nthose who are needy. Give heed to the judgment that is to\r\ncome. Ye, therefore, who are high in position, seek out the\r\nhungry as long as the tower is not yet finished; for after the\r\ntower is finished, you will wish to do good, but will find no\r\nopportunity. Give heed, therefore, ye who glory in your\r\nwealth, lest those who are needy should groan, and their\r\ngroans should ascend to the Lord, and ye be shut out with\r\nall your goods beyond the gate of the tower. Wherefore I\r\nnow say to you who preside over the church and love the\r\nfirst seats,<a id=\"r1605\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1605\"><sup>[1605]</sup></a> “Be not like to drug-mixers. For the drug-mixers\r\ncarry their drugs in boxes, but ye carry your drug\r\nand poison in your heart. Ye are hardened, and do not wish\r\nto cleanse your hearts, and to add unity of aim to purity of\r\nheart, that you may have mercy from the great King. Take\r\nheed, therefore, children, that these dissensions of yours do not\r\ndeprive you of your life. How will you instruct the elect of\r\nthe Lord, if you yourselves have not instruction? Instruct\r\neach other therefore, and be at peace among yourselves, that\r\nI also, standing joyful before your Father, may give an account\r\nof you all to your Lord.”</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-679"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b2f251680871f49cbbf23e1c192ec1e4a6ae01b8138276690c9db7ee7237537a","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-f1605","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":"f1605","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1605\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1605\">1605</a>. </span><i>Those that love the first seats</i>, omitted in Æth.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1605","text_sha256":"10189f1f8be18e87dc0cf2d821ee41b04bfb98b3031ed03b21a0a58b6280c58f","verified":false,"work_id":null}