{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">I asked him again, and said, “Since the Lord has\r\nvouchsafed to dwell always with me, bear with me while I\r\nutter a few words;<a id=\"r1642\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1642\"><sup>[1642]</sup></a> for I understand nothing, and my heart\r\nhas been hardened by my previous mode of life. Give me\r\nunderstanding, for I am exceedingly dull, and I understand\r\nabsolutely nothing.” And he answered and said unto me,\r\n“I am set over repentance, and I give understanding to all\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_354\">354</span>who repent. Do you not think,” he said, “that it is great\r\nwisdom to repent? for repentance is great wisdom.<a id=\"r1643\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1643\"><sup>[1643]</sup></a> For he\r\nwho has sinned understands that he acted wickedly in the\r\nsight of the Lord, and remembers the actions he has done,\r\nand he repents, and no longer acts wickedly, but does good\r\nmunificently, and humbles and torments his soul because he\r\nhas sinned. You see, therefore, that repentance is great\r\nwisdom.” And I said to him, “It is for this reason, sir,\r\nthat I inquire carefully into all things, especially because I\r\nam a sinner; that I may know what works I should do, that\r\nI may live: for my sins are many and various.” And he\r\nsaid to me, “You shall live if you keep my commandments,\r\nand walk in them; and whosoever shall hear and keep these\r\ncommandments, shall live to God.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE PASTOR OF HERMAS.","BOOK SECOND.—COMMANDMENTS.","COMMANDMENT FOURTH. On putting one’s wife away for adultery."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-693"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"167ba810880af1808db0c4329b8fe5c1099a5471850c64fb9c728be6e04b576f","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-f1642","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":"f1642","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1642\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1642\">1642</a>. </span><i>Bear ... words.</i> Give me a few words of explanation.—<i>Vat.</i></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1642","text_sha256":"68da8f5e579cf25bfc1c2d5cc04cddcf41308eb4e816009ceed097f745219c15","verified":false,"work_id":null}