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Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

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THE SHEPHERD<br />

Vision 1<br />

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riermas and<br />

1. He who brought me up sold me to a certain iihoda<br />

Rhoda at Rome. After many years I made her<br />

acquaintance again, and began to love her as<br />

a sister. 1 2. After some time I saw her bathing<br />

in the river Tiber, and gave her my hand and<br />

helped her out of the river. When I saw her<br />

beauty I reflected in my heart and said : " I<br />

should be happy if I had a wife of such beauty<br />

and character." This was my only thought, and no<br />

other, no, not one. 3. After some time, while I was Hcrmas<br />

going to Cumae, and glorifying the creation of God, gy^^g<br />

for its greatness and splendour and might, as I<br />

walked along I became sleepy. And a spirit seized<br />

me and took me away through a certain pathless<br />

district, through which a man could not walk, but<br />

the ground was precipitous and broken up by the<br />

1 As it stands this is hardly intelligible : presumably the<br />

meaning is that Hermas was born a slave, and that his<br />

owner sold him to Rhoda. It is implied that he then passed<br />

out of her possession, and later on made her acquaintance<br />

again. The alternative is that av(yvwpi

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