Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, vis. iii. ii. i-6
Therefore is it given to them to be on the right
hand of the Holiness, and to everyone who shall
suffer for the Name ;
but for the rest there is the left
side. But both, whether they sit on the right
or the left, have the same gifts, and the same
promises, only the former sit on the right and have
somewhat of glory. 2. And you are desirous of
sitting on the right hand with them, but your
failings are many. But you shall be cleansed from
your failings, and all who are not double-minded
shall be cleansed from all sins, up to this day."
3. When she had said this she wished to go away,
but I fell at her feet and besought her by the Lord,
to show me the vision which she had promised.
4. And she again took me by the hand and lifted The vision
me up, and made me sit on the couch on the left °^ *^® *°^^
and she herself sat on the right. And she lifted up
a certain glittering rod, and she said to me " : Do
you see a great thing.'' " I said
see nothing." She said to me :
to her: " Lady, 1
" Behold, do you
not see before you a great tower being built on the
water with shining square stones
.''
" 5. Now thfe
tower was being built four-square by the six young
men who had come with her ; but tens of thousands
of other men were bringing stones, some from the
deep sea, and some from the land, and were giving
them to the six young men, and these kept taking
them and building. 6. The stones which had been The stones
dragged from the deep sea, they placed without
exception as they were into the buildings for they
had all been shaped and fitted into the joins with
the other stones. And they so fastened one to the
other that their joins could not be seen. But the
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