Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, sm. vi. ii. 3-6
deatli,' and what is ' to corruption.' " " Listen," he
said, " the sheep which you see joyful and skipping,
these are those which have been torn away from
God completely, and have given themselves up to
the lusts of this world. For these, then, there is no
repentance of life, because they added to their sins
and blasphemed against the name of God. Such
men incur death. 4. But the sheep which you see
not skipping, but feeding in one place, these are
they who have given themselves up to luxury and
deceit, but have uttered no blasphemy against the
Lord. These then have been corrupted from the
truth ; in them there is hope of repentance, in which
they can live. Corruption, then, has hope of
some^renewing, but death has eternal destruction."
5. Again I went on a little, and he showed me a The
great shepherd, as it were savage in appearance, IS^hment
clothed in a white goat-skin, and he had a bag on
his shoulders, with a great staff, very hard and with
knots, and a great whip. And he looked very bitter
so that 1 was afraid of him, such a look had he.
6. This shepherd then was receiving the sheep from
the young shepherd ; that is to say, those who were
frisky and well-fed but not skipping, and put them
in a certain place precipitous and thorny and full of
thistles, so that the sheep could not disentangle
themselves from the thorns and thistles, but were
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