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The Pastor of Hermas
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Introductory Note to The Pastor of Hermas
[190] And put … them. That you may live to God, and they who keep these commandments will live to God.—Vat. [The beauty of this chapter must be felt by all, especially in the eulogy on patience. A pious and learned critic remarks on the emphasis and frequent recurrence of scriptural exhortations to patience, which he thinks have been to little enlarged upon in Christian literature.]
[191] [See Tob. iii. 8, 17. The impure spirit, and the healing angel. This apocryphal book greatly influenced the Church’s ideas of angels, and may have suggested this early reference to one’s good and evil angel. The mediæval ideas on this subject are powerfully illustrated in the German legends preserved by Sir. W. Scott in The Wild Huntsman and The Fire-King.]
[192] Forthwith … heart, omitted in Lips.
[193] Transactions. I think the writer means, when a longing is felt to engage with too great devotedness to business and the pursuit of wealth. [“That ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.” 1 Cor. vii. 35.]
[194] Trust … deed. Trust the angel of righteousness, beacause his instruction is good.—Vat.
[195] Faithful. Most happy.—Vat.
[196] But to bid farewell. The Vat. ends quite differently from this point: If, then, you follow him, and trust to his works, you will live to God; and they who trust to his works will live to God.—Vat.
Commandment Seventh. On Fearing God, and Not Fearing the Devil.
[198] [Prov. xxviii. 14; 1 John iv. 18. This chapter seems based on Jas. iv. 7.]
[199] Why … they only who fear the Lord, omitted in Vat.
[200] God. Lord.—Vat.
Commandment Eighth. We Ought to Shun that Which is Evil, and Do that Which is Good.
[201] [Command. vi. cap. i. p. 24, supra. The idea taken fromEcclus. xxxiii. 15, and Eccles. vii. 14.]
[202] For … sin, omitted in Lips.
[203] [Gal. v. 10, 21; 1 Pet. iv. 3.]
[204] [First of all, faith, holy fear, love etc. Then, works of mercy. Could evangelical morality be more beautifully illustrated?]
[205] [1 Pet. iv. 9. Who does not feel humbled and instructed by these rules of holy living. No wonder Athanasius, while rejecting it from the canon (Contra Hæresim Arian., p. 380) calls this a “most useful book.” De Incarnatione, p. 38. Paris, 1537.]
[206] From them … all who act thus will live to God, omitted in Vat., which ends thus: If you keep all these commandments, you will live to God, and all who keep these commandments will live to God.
Commandment Ninth. Prayer Must Be Made to God Without Ceasing, and with Unwavering Confidence.
[207] [Jas. i. 6-8 is here the text of the Shepherd’s comment.]
[208] With difficulty be saved. Will with difficulty live to God.—Vat.
[209] Lord. God.—Vat.
[210] The Vat. has here a considerable number of sentences, found in the Greek, the Palatine, and the Æthiopic, in Commandment Eleventh. In consequence of this transference, the Eleventh Commandment in the Vatican differs considerably from the others in the position of the sentences, but otherwise it is substantially the same.
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