{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Sitting in my house, and glorifying the Lord for all that\r\nI had seen, and reflecting on the commandments, that they\r\nare excellent, and powerful, and glorious, and able to save a\r\nman’s soul, I said within myself, “I shall be blessed if I walk\r\nin these commandments, and every one who walks in them\r\nwill be blessed.” While I was saying these words to myself,\r\nI suddenly see him sitting beside me, and hear him thus\r\nspeak: “Why are you in doubt about the commandments\r\nwhich I gave you? They are excellent: have no doubt\r\nabout them at all, but put on faith in the Lord, and you will\r\nwalk in them, for I will strengthen you in them. These\r\ncommandments are beneficial to those who intend to repent:\r\nfor if they do not walk in them, their repentance is in vain.\r\nYou, therefore, who repent cast away the wickedness of this\r\nworld which wears you out; and by putting on all the virtues\r\nof a holy life, you will be able to keep these commandments,\r\nand will no longer add to the number of your sins. Walk,<a id=\"r1716\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1716\"><sup>[1716]</sup></a>\r\ntherefore, in these commandments of mine, and you will live\r\nunto God. All these things have been spoken to you by me.”\r\nAnd after he had uttered these words, he said to me, “Let us\r\ngo into the fields, and I will show you the shepherds of the\r\nflocks.” “Let us go, sir,” I replied. And we came to a certain\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_389\">389</span>plain, and he showed me a young man, a shepherd, clothed\r\nin a suit of garments of a yellow colour: and he was herding\r\nvery many sheep, and these sheep were feeding luxuriously,\r\nas it were, and riotously, and merrily skipping hither and\r\nthither. And the shepherd himself was merry, because of\r\nhis flock; and the appearance of the shepherd was joyous, and\r\nhe was running about amongst his flock. [And other sheep I\r\nsaw rioting and luxuriating in one place, but not, however,\r\nleaping about.<a id=\"r1717\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1717\"><sup>[1717]</sup></a>]</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-726"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"398c068c31f83cffb7e21822469a811724a7b50a7045ce899d7278ec8a6df2c5","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-f1716","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":"f1716","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1716\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1716\">1716</a>. </span>The Vatican has a sentence before this: “For if you sin not afterwards,\r\nyou will greatly fall away from your former [transgressions].”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1716","text_sha256":"79bf2a1130d46b2723e162c81d41862cf6656747441b026d68899ef0b71acd17","verified":false,"work_id":null}