{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">These things he said to me in tones of the deepest anger,\r\nso that I was confounded and exceedingly afraid of him, for\r\nhis figure was altered so that a man could not endure his\r\nanger. But seeing me altogether agitated and confused, he\r\nbegan to speak to me in more gentle tones; and he said:\r\n“O fool, senseless and doubting, do you not perceive how\r\ngreat is the glory of God, and how strong and marvellous,\r\nin that He created the world for the sake of man, and\r\nsubjected all creation to him, and gave him power to rule\r\nover everything under heaven? If, then, man is lord of\r\nthe creatures of God, and rules over all, is he not able\r\nto be lord also of these commandments? For,” says he,\r\n“the man who has the Lord in his heart can also be lord\r\nof all, and of every one of these commandments. But to those\r\nwho have the Lord only on their lips,<a id=\"r1685\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1685\"><sup>[1685]</sup></a> but their hearts\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_373\">373</span>hardened,<a id=\"r1686\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1686\"><sup>[1686]</sup></a> and who are far from the Lord, the commandments\r\nare hard and difficult. Put, therefore, ye who are\r\nempty and fickle in your faith, the Lord in your heart, and\r\nye will know that there is nothing easier, or sweeter, or more\r\nmanageable, than these commandments. Return, ye who walk\r\nin the commandments of the devil, in hard, and bitter, and\r\nwild licentiousness, and fear not the devil; for there is no\r\npower in him against you, for I will be with you, the angel\r\nof repentance, who am lord over him. The devil has fear\r\nonly, but his fear has no strength. Fear him not, then, and\r\nhe will flee from you.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT TWELFTH. On the twofold desire. The commandments of God can be kept, and believers ought not to fear the devil."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-712"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f112859dc61f00ef8fa31b9f9186fce1ff2ec3d5870527c4b7f0a2322180472d","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xii. 40","verse":40,"verse_end":40},{"book":"2CO","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. iii. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1686","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":"f1686","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1686\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1686\">1686</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 40; 2 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1686","text_sha256":"b742eef4049263347c7e1223743602b0487936ecfdd2aae2b6af4330e9e8eb4a","verified":false,"work_id":null}