{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“I charge you,” said he, “to guard your chastity, and let no\r\nthought enter your heart of another man’s wife, or of fornication,\r\nor of similar iniquities; for by doing this you commit\r\na great sin. But if you always remember your own wife,\r\nyou will never sin. For if this thought<a id=\"r1636\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1636\"><sup>[1636]</sup></a> enter your heart,\r\nthen you will sin; and if, in like manner, you think other\r\nwicked thoughts, you commit sin. For this thought is great\r\nsin in a servant of God. But if any one commit this wicked\r\ndeed, he works death for himself. Attend, therefore, and\r\nrefrain from this thought; for where purity dwells, there\r\niniquity ought not to enter the heart of a righteous man.” I\r\nsaid to him, “Sir, permit me to ask you a few questions.”<a id=\"r1637\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1637\"><sup>[1637]</sup></a>\r\n“Say on,” said he. And I said to him, “Sir, if any one has a\r\nwife who trusts in the Lord, and if he detect her in adultery,\r\ndoes the man sin if he continue to live with her?” And he\r\nsaid to me, “As long as he remains ignorant of her sin, the\r\nhusband commits no transgression in living with her. But\r\nif the husband know that his wife has gone astray, and if the\r\nwoman does not repent, but persists in her fornication, and\r\nyet the husband continues to live with her, he also is guilty\r\nof her crime, and a sharer in her adultery.” And I said to\r\nhim, “What then, sir, is the husband to do, if his wife continue\r\nin her vicious practices?” And he said, “The husband should\r\nput her away, and remain by himself. But if he put his wife\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_353\">353</span>away and marry another, he also commits adultery.”<a id=\"r1638\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1638\"><sup>[1638]</sup></a> And\r\nI said to him, “What if the woman put away should repent,\r\nand wish to return to her husband: shall she not be taken\r\nback by her husband?” And he said to me, “Assuredly.\r\nIf the husband do not take her back, he sins, and brings\r\na great sin upon himself; for he ought to take back the\r\nsinner who has repented. But not frequently. For there\r\nis but one repentance to the servants of God. In case,\r\ntherefore, that the divorced wife may repent, the husband\r\nought not to marry another, when his wife has been put\r\naway. In this matter man and woman are to be treated\r\nexactly in the same way. Moreover, adultery is committed\r\nnot only by those who pollute their flesh, but by those who\r\nimitate the heathen in their actions.<a id=\"r1639\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1639\"><sup>[1639]</sup></a> Wherefore if any one<a id=\"r1640\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1640\"><sup>[1640]</sup></a>\r\npersists in such deeds, and repents not, withdraw from him,\r\nand cease to live with him, otherwise you are a sharer in his\r\nsin. Therefore has the injunction been laid on you, that you\r\nshould remain by yourselves, both man and woman, for in\r\nsuch persons repentance can take place. But I do not,” said\r\nhe, “give opportunity for the doing of these deeds, but that\r\nhe who has sinned may sin no more. But with regard to his\r\nprevious transgressions, there is One who is able to provide a\r\ncure;<a id=\"r1641\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1641\"><sup>[1641]</sup></a> for it is He, indeed, who has power over all.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT FOURTH. 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