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Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

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THE SHEPHERD, sim. x. iii. i-iv. 2<br />

house. 2. Only do you make your house pure, for<br />

in a pure house they will willingly dwell, for they<br />

are pure and chaste and industrious and all have<br />

favour with the Lord. If then they find your house<br />

pure they will remain with you. But if ever so little<br />

corruption come to it they will at once depart from<br />

your home, for these maidens love no sort of impurity."<br />

3. I said to him : " I hope, Sir, that I shall please<br />

them so that they may ever willingly dwell in my<br />

house. And just as he, to whom you handed me<br />

over, finds no fault m me, so they also shall find no<br />

fault in me." 4. He said to the shepherd : " I know<br />

that the servant of God wishes to live, and will keep<br />

these commandments, and will provide for the<br />

maidens in purity." 5. When he had said this he<br />

handed me over again to the shepherd, and called<br />

the maidens and said to them : " Since I see that<br />

you willingly dwell in his house I commend him<br />

and his house to you, that you depart not at<br />

all from his house." But they heard these words<br />

willingly.<br />

IV<br />

1. Then he said to me " : Behave manfully in this<br />

ministry, show to every man the ' mighty acts ' of the<br />

Lord, and you shall have favour in this ministry.<br />

Whoever therefore shall walk in these commandments<br />

shall live, and shall be happy in his life ; but<br />

whoever shall neglect them shall not live, and shall<br />

be unhappy in his life. 2. Say to all men who are<br />

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