The Shepherd of Hermas

And in that you saw her sitting on a couch, the position is secure, for a couch has four feet and stands securely, for even the world is controlled by four elements.

They, therefore, who have repented shall completely recover their youth and be well founded, because they have repented with all their heart. You have the revelation completed; no longer ask anything about the revelation, but if anything be needed it shall be revealed to you.

The fourth vision which I saw, brethren.[*](The vision of the Leviathan) twenty days after the former vision, was a type of the persecution which is to come.

I was going into the country by the Via Campana. The place is about ten furlongs from the public road, and is easily reached.

As I walked by myself I besought the Lord to complete the revelations and visions which he had shown me by his holy Church, to make me strong and give repentance to his servants who had been offended, to glorify his, great and glorious name, because he had thought me worthy to show me his wonders.

And while I was glorifying him and giving him thanks an answer came to me as an echo of my voice, Do not be double-minded, Hermas. I began to reason in myself, and to say, In what ways can I be double-minded after being given such a foundation by the Lord, and having seen his glorious deeds?