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Continue reading →: The Third Book of HERMAS, which is called his SIMILITUDES.SIMILITUDE I. That seeing we have no abiding city in this world, we ought to look after that which is to come. AND he said unto me; Ye know that ye who are the servants of Yahuah, live here as in a pilgrimage; for your city is far off from…
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Continue reading →: Ascension of Isaiah – Chapter 321. And afterwards, on the eve of His approach, His disciples will forsake the teachings of the Twelve Apostles, and their faith, and their love and their purity. 22. And there will be much contention on the eve of [His advent and] His approach. 23. And in those days many…
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Continue reading →: The Testament of AsherTHE copy of the Testament of Asher, what things he spake to his sons in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of his life. 2 For while he was still in health, he said to them: Hearken, ye children of Asher, to your father, and I will declare to you all…
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Continue reading →: The Two Types of Abstinence: A Path to RighteousnessI HAVE told thee, said he, that there are two kinds of creatures of YAHUAH, and that there is a two-fold abstinence. From some things therefore thou must abstain, and from others not. I answered, declare to me, sir, from what I must abstain, and from what not. Hearken, said…
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Continue reading →: Of the sadness of the heart, and of patienceCOMMAND V – The Second Book of Hermas, called His Commands ~Of the sadness of the heart, and of patience~ BE patient, says he, and longsuffering; so shalt thou have dominion over all wicked works, and shalt fulfil all righteousness. 2 For if thou shalt be patient, the Set Apart…
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Continue reading →: Know thy enemy!…But, after the angels were gone from Adam and Eve, came Satan, with shamefacedness, and stood at the entrance of the cave in which were Adam and Eve. He then called to Adam, and said, “O Adam, come, let me speak to thee.” Then Adam came out of the cave,…
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Continue reading →: Regarding doubt“Remove from thee all doubting; and question nothing at all, when thou askest anything of YAHUAH; saying within thyself: how shall I be able to ask anything of YAHUAH and receive it, seeing I have so greatly sinned against him? Do not think thus, but turn unto YAHUAH with all…
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Continue reading →: Avoid detraction, do your alms-deeds with simplicityCOMMAND II – The Shepherd of Hermas ~That we must avoid detraction, and do our alms-deeds with simplicity.~ HE said unto me, 1 Be innocent and without disguise; so shalt thou be like an infant who knows no malice which destroys the life of man. 2 Especially see that thou…
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Continue reading →: About False ProphetsBUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying YAHUAH that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the Way…






