Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, mand. xi. i8-xii. i. 2
Take a stone and throw it up to Heaven and see if
you can touch it ; or take a syringe ^ and squirt it
towards the sky, and see if you can make a liole in
the Heavens." 19. "How, sir," said I, "can these
things be ? For both these things which you have
spoken of are impossible." "Even," said he, "as
these are impossible, so also are the earthly spirits
without power and feeble. 20. Take now the power
which comes from above. The hail is a very little
grain, and when it falls on man's head, how it hurts
Or, again, take a drop which falls on the ground
from the roof, and makes a hole in stone. 21. You
see, then, that the smallest things which come
from above and fall on the earth have great power ;
so also the Divine Spirit which comes from above is
powerful. Have faith, then, in this Spirit, but
refrain from the other."
1 . He
Mandate 12
I
said to me, " Put away from yourself every Desire
evil desire, but put on the desire which is good and
holy ;
for by putting on this desire you will hate the
wicked desire, and will curb it as you will, 2. For
the wicked desire is cruel and hard to tame, for it is
fearful, and destroys men greatly in its cruelty, but
1 The syringe or hand pump used for cleaning and watering
the vines in the Italian vineyards.
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