{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I said to him, “Sir, explain this also to me.” “What is\r\nit you ask?” he said. “Whether, sir,” I continued, “they\r\nwho indulge in luxury, and who are deceived, are tortured for\r\nthe same period of time that they have indulged in luxury and\r\ndeceit?” He said to me, “They are tortured in the same\r\nmanner.”<a id=\"r1725\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1725\"><sup>[1725]</sup></a> [“They are tormented much less, sir,” I replied;<a id=\"r1726\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1726\"><sup>[1726]</sup></a>]\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_392\">392</span>“for those who are so luxurious and who forget God ought\r\nto be tortured seven-fold.” He said to me, “You are foolish,\r\nand do not understand the power of torment.” “Why, sir,”\r\nI said, “if I had understood it, I would not have asked you\r\nto show me.” “Hear,” he said, “the power of both. The\r\ntime of luxury and deceit is one hour; but the hour of\r\ntorment is equivalent to thirty days. If, accordingly, a man\r\nindulge in luxury for one day, and be deceived and be\r\ntortured for one day, the day of his torture is equivalent to a\r\nwhole year. For all the days of luxury, therefore, there are as\r\nmany years of torture to be undergone. You see, then,” he\r\ncontinued, “that the time of luxury and deceit is very short,<a id=\"r1727\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1727\"><sup>[1727]</sup></a>\r\nbut that of punishment and torture long.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE SIXTH. Of the two classes of voluptuous men, and of their death, falling away, and the duration of their punishment."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-729"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e2c954ea21c221f0c2b99ff4487c25734e6d95dd299ea90011673ca03fe7f8da","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-f1725","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":"f1725","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1725\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1725\">1725</a>. </span>τρόπον. The Vat. and Pal. have, “for the same time” (<i>per idem\r\ntempus</i>).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1725","text_sha256":"d6307531f2527b008758ccb8d16a2ea7f9686ea6fcf2e2777d628d90959b8cc2","verified":false,"work_id":null}