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The Pastor of Hermas
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Introductory Note to The Pastor of Hermas
[299] The Vatican inserts the following sentence before this: “And when they begin to repent of their sins, then the works in which they have wickedly exercised themselves arise in their hearts; and then they give honour to God, saying that He is a just Judge, and that they have deservedly suffered everything according to their deeds.” So does Pal. The Æthiopic becomes very condensed in this portion. [Note this class of offenders, having suffered remedial chastisement, are not delivered over the Satan finally, but “delivered unto me (the angel of repentance) for good training.”]
[300] τρόπον. The Vat. and Pal. have, “for the same time” (per idem tempus).
[301] Omitted in Lips.
[302] Pseudo-Athanasius has “nothing” (οὐδέν) instead of ἐλάχιστος.
[303] ποτέ. [The pleasures of sin are “for a season” (Heb. xi. 25), at most: impenitence is the “treasuring up of wrath against the day of wrath” (Rom. ii. 5).]
[304] [Ps. iv. 6, 7, cxix. 14, lxxxiv. 10. Dr. Doddridge’s epigram on Dum Vivimus Vivamus will be brought to mind.]
Similitude Seventh. They Who Repent Must Bring Forth Fruits Worthy of Repentance.
[305] The Vat. and Pal. have protinus, “immediately.” [Wake adopts this reading, which appears to be required by the context.]
[306] The Lips. has lost here a few words, which are supplied from the Latin translations. [Mal. iii. 3;Isa. i. 22; Ps. xxvi. 2, cxxxix. 23, 24. Is there not much teaching here for our easy living, and light ideas of the sinfulness of sin?]
[307] The Vatican has: “But rather give thanks to the Lord, that He, knowing what is to come to pass, has deemed you worthy to tell you beforehand that affiction is coming upon those who are able to bear it.” [1 Cor. x. 13. But the whole argument turns on Jas. i. 2, as Hermas delights in this practical apostle.]
[308] [Sam. iii. 31, 32, 33.]
[309] Omitted by Lips.
[310] Omitted in Lips. and Vat.
[311] Omitted in Lips.
[312] Num. xvii. 8. [Willows are chosen, perhaps, with reference to Isa. xliv. 4; but Ezekiel’s willow supplies the thought here (Ezek. xvii. 5, 6).]
[313] 2 Esdras ii. 43.
[314] [Eph. i. 13, iv. 30.]
[315] [Rev. xix. 8.]
[316] [Rev. viii. 3; Num. xvii. 7.]
[318] [Rom. xi. 16.]
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