{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">After she had spoken these words, the heavens were shut.\r\nI was overwhelmed with sorrow and fear, and said to myself,\r\n“If this sin is assigned to me, how can I be saved, or how\r\nshall I propitiate God in regard to my sins,<a id=\"r1547\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1547\"><sup>[1547]</sup></a> which are of\r\nthe grossest character? With what words shall I ask the\r\nLord to be merciful to me?” While I was thinking over these\r\nthings, and discussing them in my mind, I saw opposite to\r\nme a chair, white, made of white wool,<a id=\"r1548\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1548\"><sup>[1548]</sup></a> of great size. And\r\nthere came up an old woman, arrayed in a splendid robe,\r\nand with a book in her hand; and she sat down alone, and\r\nsaluted me, “Hail, Hermas!” And in sadness and tears<a id=\"r1549\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1549\"><sup>[1549]</sup></a> I\r\nsaid to her, “Lady, hail!” And she said to me, “Why are\r\nyou downcast, Hermas? for you were wont to be patient\r\nand temperate, and always smiling. Why are you so\r\ngloomy, and not cheerful?” I answered her and said, “O\r\nLady, I have been reproached by a very good woman, who\r\nsays that I sinned against her.” And she said, “Far be such\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_326\">326</span>a deed from a servant of God. But perhaps a desire after\r\nher has arisen within your heart. Such a wish, in the case\r\nof the servants of God, produces sin. For it is a wicked and\r\nhorrible wish in an all-chaste and already well-tried spirit<a id=\"r1550\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1550\"><sup>[1550]</sup></a> to\r\ndesire an evil deed; and especially for Hermas so to do, who\r\nkeeps himself from all wicked desire, and is full of all simplicity,\r\nand of great guilelessness.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK FIRST.—VISIONS.","VISION FIRST. AGAINST FILTHY AND PROUD THOUGHTS, AND THE CARELESSNESS OF HERMAS IN CHASTISING HIS SONS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-664"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8efa93b40bd7d2a4e6597629fda4853037322a41cb6454ed52c14152c91b2db3","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-f1547","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":"f1547","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1547\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1547\">1547</a>. </span>Literally, perfect. <i>How ... sins.</i> How shall I entreat the Lord in\r\nregard to my very numerous sins?—<i>Vat.</i> How can I propitiate the\r\nLord God in these my sins?—<i>Pal.</i> How then shall I be saved, and beg\r\npardon of the Lord for these my many sins?—<i>Æth.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1547","text_sha256":"c6d12d1b75212a1ce3efd1dbde3be55deb357184e394440577332ed6fa8cfbb9","verified":false,"work_id":null}