Book Third. Similitudes

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Title:	Book Third. Similitudes
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Excerpt: SIMILITUDE FIRST.(1) AS IN THIS WORLD WE HAVE NO ABIDING CITY, WE OUGHT TO SEEK ONE TO COME. HE says to me, ?You know that you who are the servants of God dwell in a strange land; for your city is far away from this one.(2) If, then,? he continues, ?you know your city in which you are to dwell, why do ye here provide lands, and make expensive preparations, and accumulate dwellings and useless buildings? He who makes such preparations for this city cannot return again to his own. Oh foolish, and unstable, and miserable man! Dost thou not understand that all these things belong to another, and are under the power of another? for the lord of this city will say, ?I do not wish thee to dwell in my city; but depart from this city, because thou obeyest not my laws.? Thou, therefore, although having fields and houses, and many other things, when cast out by him, what wilt thou do with thy land, and house, and other possessions which thou hast gathered to thyself? For the lord of this country justly says to thee, ?Either obey my laws or depart from my dominion.? What, then, dost thou intend to do, having a law in thine own city, on account of thy lands, and the rest of thy possessions?(3) Thou shalt altogether deny thy law, and walk according to the law of this city. See lest it be to thy hurt to deny thy law;(4) for if thou shalt desire to return to thy city, thou wilt not be received, because thou hast denied the law of thy city, but wilt be excluded from it. Have a care, therefore: as one living in a foreign land, make no further preparations for thyself than such merely as may be sufficient; and be ready, when the master of this city shall come to cast thee out for disobeying his law, to leave his city, and to depart to thine own, and to obey thine own law without being exposed to annoyance, but in great joy. Have a care.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: BOOK THIRD. SIMILITUDES, 1 -- The Pastor of Hermas, 1 -- SIMILITUDE FIRST.(1), 2 -- SIMILITUDE SECOND, 3 -- SIMILITUDE THIRD, 4 -- SIMILITUDE FOURTH, 4 -- SIMILITUDE FIFTH, 4 -- Chapter I, 4 -- Chapter II, 5 -- Chapter III, 5 -- Chapter IV, 6 -- Chapter V, 6 -- Chapter VI, 7 -- Chapter VII, 7 -- SIMILITUDE SIXTH, 7 -- Chapter I, 7 -- Chapter II, 8 -- Chapter III, 8 -- Chapter IV, 9 -- Chapter V, 9 -- SIMILITUDE SEVENTH, 9 -- SIMILITUDE EIGHTH, 10 -- Chapter I, 10 -- Chapter II, 11 -- Chapter III, 11 -- Chapter IV, 12 -- Chapter V, 12 -- Chapter VI, 12 -- Chapter VII, 13 -- Chapter VIII, 13 -- Chapter IX, 14 -- Chapter X, 14 -- Chapter XI, 14 -- SIMILITUDE NINTH, 14 -- Chapter I, 14 -- Chapter II, 15 -- Chapter III, 15 -- Chapter IV, 16 -- Chapter V, 16 -- Chapter VI, 17 -- Chapter VII, 17 -- Chapter VIII, 17 -- Chapter IX, 18 -- Chapter X, 18 -- Chapter XI, 19 -- Chapter XII, 19 -- Chapter XIII, 20 -- BOOK THIRD. SIMILITUDES -- i