Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 9 · Chapter 29

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Similitude 9.29.1 Those who believed from the twelfth mountain, the white one, are like this: they are like little infants, into whose heart no evil arises. They have not known what wickedness is, but have always remained in childlikeness.

Greek (Lake printed edition)

Similitude 9.29.2 Such people, therefore, will undoubtedly dwell in the kingdom of God, because they have not defiled God's commandments in any matter, but have remained with childlikeness in the same disposition all the days of their life.

Greek (Lake printed edition)

Similitude 9.29.3 All of you, therefore,” he said, “who remain and become like infants, having no evil, will be more glorious than all those previously mentioned. For all infants are glorious before God and first in His presence. Blessed, therefore, are you who remove wickedness from yourselves and put on innocence; you will live to God first of all.”

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Similitude 9.29.4 After he had completed the parables of the mountains, I said to him, “Sir, now disclose to me the things about the stones taken from the plain and placed in the building in place of the stones removed from the tower, and about the round ones placed in the building, and those still round.”