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The Pastor of Hermas
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Introductory Note to The Pastor of Hermas
[129] [This address to “brethren” sustains the form of the primitive prophesyings, in the congregation.]
[130] [One of the tribulations spoken of in the Apocalypse is probably intended. This Vision is full of the imagery of the Book of Revelation.]
[131] Rarely. Easily.—Lips., Sin.
[132] He might strengthen me, omitted in Vat.
[133] For … marvels. This clause is connected with the subsequent sentence in Vat.
[134] [Rev. ix. 3.]
[135] Comp. Rev. xi. 7, xii. 3, 4, xiii. 1, xvii. 8, xxii. 2. [The beast was “like a whale” in size and proportion. It was not a sea-monster. This whole passage is Dantesque. See Inferno, canto xxxi., and, for the colours, canto xvii. 15.]
[136] God.—Lips., Vat.
[137] The Vat. adds: with a stroke.
[138] [Those who remember the Vatican collection and other antiques, will recall the exquisite figure and veiling of the Pudicitia.]
[139] The Lord. God.—Vat.
[140] Care. Loneliness and anxiety.—Vat.
[141] God. The Lord.—Vat.
[142] [Acts iv. 12.]
[143] [Perhaps compounded from θὴρ and ἀγρεύω.] The name of this angel is variously written, Hegrin [Query. Quasi ἐγρηγορεῖν, or corrupted from (Sept.) εἲρ καὶ ἃγιος; Hir in Daniel’s Chaldee], Tegri. Some have supposed the word to be for ἄγριον, the wild; some have taken it to mean “the watchful,” as in Dan. iv. 10, 23: and some take it to be the name of a fabulous lion. [See, also, Dan. vi. 22.]
[144] The Lord. God.—Vat.
[145] Send scourges. Send you help. But woe to the doubters who.—Vat.
[148] [Very much resembling Dante, again, in many passages. Inferno, xxi. “Allor mi volsi,” etc.]
Vision Fifth. Concerning the Commandments.
[149] [This vision naturally belongs to book ii., to which it is a preface.]
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