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The Pastor of Hermas
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Introductory Note to The Pastor of Hermas
[393] Here ends Codex Lipsiensis. The rest of the text is from common translation corrected by the Palatine and Æthiopic.
[394] [Born good. Not in the text of Gebhardt and Harnack (the Greek is wanting); nor do they note any such text, though the Æthiopic favours it. See p. 42, supra, note 2.]
[395] [Here again the Latin has the reading before noted, on the circumcision of wealth, p. 15, note 2, supra.]
[396] Matt. xviii. 3, xix. 14.
[397] [Jer. xiii. 20; Zech. xi. 15-17.]
[398] [Jas. v. 9. Who can fail to feel the searching spirit of the gospel here? Matt. v. 23, 24, vi. 14.]
[399] Servants of God. Servant of the Lord.—Æth.
[400] [Heb. viii 12, x. 17.]
[401] Lord. God.—Pal.
[402] But he has his own honour … despise him, omitted in Vat.
[403] [Cap. xiii. p. 48, supra.]
[405] Angel, Æth.; Pastor, Pal.; omitted in Vat.
[406] God, common version; Lord, Æth., Pal.; Lord God, Vat.
[407] [Here might follow that beautiful fragment of Irenæus, on God’s goodness accepting the feeblest efforts of the soul in drawing near to Him. Vol. i. Frag. lv. p. 577, this series.]
[408] [Jas. v. 19, 20. As St. James concludes with this principle, so also Hermas, who evidently delights in this apostle’s teaching and has thrown it into this allegorical metaphrase.]
[409] The Vatican has: “Here ends the Book of the Shepherd, the disciple of the blessed apostle Paul. Thanks be to God.” The Æthiopic has: “May the name of him who wrote this book be written on a pillar of gold. With thanksgiving to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, this book of the prophet Hermas has been finished. Amen. Finished are the visions, and commandments, and similitudes of the prophet Hermas, who is Paul, in the year 191 of mercy, 23d night and 22d day of the month,” etc. The writer goes on [fruitlessly] to show that Hermas is Paul, appealing to Acts xiv. 12.
[410] Tom. i. pp. 393–434.
[411] On the Canon, p. 235. Ed. 1855.
[412] Such as Lightfoot, Westcott, Canon Cook, and others.
[413] Candidly treated by Guettée, L’Eglise de France, vol. xii. p. 15. See also Parton’s Voltaire, vol. i. pp. 260–270.
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