The Shepherd of Hermas

Hermas

Hermas. The Apostolic Fathers with an English translation by Kirsopp Lake. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1913

See to it,

therefore, children, that these disagreements do not rob you of your life.

How will you correct the chosen of the Lord if you yourselves suffer no correction? Correct therefore one another and be at peace among yourselves, that I also may stand joyfully before the Father, and give an account of you all to the Lord.

When therefore she ceased speaking with me,[*](The departure of the ancient lady) the six young men who were building came and took her away to the tower, and four others took up the couch and bore it away also to the tower. I did not see their faces because they were turned away.

But as she was going I asked her to give me a revelation concerning the three forms in which she had appeared to me. She answered me and said, Concerning these things you must ask some one else to reveal them to you.