Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, sim. ix. ix. 4-x. i
buill of Lhe tower, and the master of the tower
wishes that all these stones should be fitted into the
building l)ecause they are very bright. 5. And
there were called twelve women, \ ery beautiful to
look at, clothed in black, girded, and their shoulders
bare, and their hair loose. And these women looked
to me to be cruel. And the shepherd commanded
them to take the stones which were rejected from
the building, and take them back to the mountains,
from which also they had been brought. 6. And they
w^ere glad and took them up, and took away all the
stones, and put them whence they had been takeil.
And after all the stones had been taken up, and
there no longer remained a stone round the tower,
" Let us go round the
the shepherd said to me :
tower and see if there is any defect in it." And I
went round it w ith him. 7. And when the shepherd
saw that the tower was beautifully built, he was very
joyful ; for the tower was so built that when I saw
it, I envied its building, for it was so built, as if it
were all one stone, without a single joint in it,
and the stone appeared as if it had been hewn
out of a rockj for it seemed to me to be a single
stone.
1. And I also walked with him and was glad The
when J saw such good things. And the shepherd ofThe"°
said to me : " Go and bring lime and a light clay, JJf^jf^*^:""that
I may fill up the marks of the stones^ which have the t.nv«r
^ Apparently the meaning is that the holes left in the
ground whet e stones liad been taken out were to be filled up
and levelled.
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