Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, sim. vi. i. 4-ii. 3
ness, you shall be able to keep these commandments,
and no longer add to your sins. Therefore walk
in these commandments of mine, and you shall
live to God. All these things have been spoken
to you by me." 5. And after he spoke these The vision
things with me, he said to me : " Let us go into shepherds
the country, and I will show you the shepherds
of the sheep." " Let us go, sir," said L And we
came into a plain, and he showed me a young
shepherd, clothed with a suit of garments of
}'ellow colour. 6. And he was feeding very many
sheep, and these sheep were well fed and very
frisky, and were glad as they skipped here and
there. And the shepherd himself was veiy joyful
over his flock, and the face of the shepherd was very
joyful, and he ran about among the sheep.
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L And he said to me: "Do you see this The
shepherd?" " Yes, sir," said I, "1 see him." "This," ^nSuf
said he, "is the angel of luxury and deceit. He
wears out the souls of the servants of God, and
perverts thetn from the truth, deceiving them with
evil desires in which they j>erish. 2. For they
forget the commandments of the Living God, and
walk in deceit and vain luxury, and are destroyed by
this angel, some to death, and some to corruption."
3. I said to him : " Sir, I do not know what is ' to
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