{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">He showed me many trees having no leaves, but withered,\r\nas it seemed to me; for all were alike. And he said to me,\r\n“Do you see those trees?” “I see, sir,” I replied, “that\r\nall are alike, and withered.” He answered me, and said,\r\n“These trees which you see are those who dwell in this\r\nworld.” “Why, then, sir,” I said, “are they withered, as it\r\nwere, and alike?”<a id=\"r1701\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1701\"><sup>[1701]</sup></a> “Because,” he said, “neither are the\r\nrighteous manifest in this life, nor sinners, but they are alike;\r\nfor this life is a winter to the righteous, and they do not\r\nmanifest themselves, because they dwell with sinners: for as\r\nin winter trees that have cast their leaves are alike, and it is\r\nnot seen which are dead and which are living, so in this\r\nworld neither do the righteous show themselves, nor sinners,\r\nbut all are alike one to another.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.","SIMILITUDE THIRD. As in winter green trees cannot be distinguished from withered, so in this world neither can the just from the unjust."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-717"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a67fd6d63375a344df3ea282daf7ff4097aa876ed9ae90ae1f9bf8da260d4314","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-f1701","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":"f1701","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1701\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1701\">1701</a>. </span>The Vatican renders this thus: “Why do they resemble those that\r\nare, as it were, withered?”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1701","text_sha256":"730468cc967fc0d060ce45bfcecf10a3eaae6e04994c5c8480bab47b9a65ab70","verified":false,"work_id":null}