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The Pastor of Hermas
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Introductory Note to The Pastor of Hermas
[218] [Matt. vi. 16, 17: Is. lviii. 5;2 Cor. vi. 10; John xvi. 33; Rom. xii. 8.]
[219] Is … God. He who sits in the chair is a terrestrial spirit.—Vat. And then follows the dislocation of sentences noticed above.
[220] The spirit of all men is earthly, etc. This passage, down to “it is not possible that the prophet of God should do this,” is found in the Vat. and other mss. of the common translation, with the exception of the Lambeth, in Command Twelfth. [Consult Wake upon omissions and transpositions in this and the former Commandment. And note, especially, his valuable caution against confounding what is here said, so confusedly, of the Spirit in man, and of the Spirit of God in his essence (1 Cor. ii. 11, 12).
[221] Angel of the prophetic Spirit. The holy messenger (angel) of Divinity.—Vat. [1 Cor. xiv.passim.]
[222] [Here is a caution against divers Phrygian prophesyings.]
[223] [This proverb is found in many languages. Hermas may have been familiar with Ovid, or with the Greek of the poetaster Chœrilus, from whom Ovid, with other Latin poets, condescended to borrow it.]
[224] Earth. After this the Vatican reads: Join yourself, therefore, to that which has power, and withdraw from that one which is empty. [Hermas seems to apply to the Spirit, in carrying out his figure, those words of the Psalmist, lxxii. 6.]
[225] [Concupiscence is here shown to have the nature of sin.]
[226] [See the Greek of Athanasius, and Grabe’s transposition, in Wake’s version of the Eleventh and Twelfth Commandments.]
[227] For … God. This desire, therefore, is wicked and destructive, bringing death on the servants of God. Whoever, therefore, shall abstain from evil desire, shall live to God.—Vat.
[228] God. The Lord.—Vat.
[229] Go … wishes. And you will obtain the victory, and will be crowned on account of it, and you will arrive at good desire, and you will deliver up the victory which you have obtained to God, and you will serve Him by acting even as you yourself wish to act.—Vat.
[230] Chapters third, fourth, and a part of fifth, are omitted in the Palatine. [This chapter seems based on Heb. v. 14.]
[231] God. The Lord.—Vat.
[232] [Here is the commission to be a prophet, and to speak prophesyings in the congregation. If the Montanists resisted these teachings, they were self-condemned. Such is the idea here conveyed. 1 Cor. xiv. 32, 37.]
[233] If … kept, omitted in Vat.
[234] [Boyle beautifully reconciles “those two current assertions, that (1) God made all things for His own glory, and that (2) He made all things for man.” See Usefulness of Nat. Philos., part i., essay 3, or Leighton’s Works, vol. iii. p. 235, London, 1870.]
[235] Isa. xxix. 13; Matt. xv. 8.
[236] John xii. 40; 2 Cor. iii. 14.
[237] [Jas. ii. 19, iv. 6, 7.]
[238] Empty. Half full.—Vat.
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