the Shepherd
object · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Shepherd of the adulterers · the Shepherd of Hermas · the apocryphal Shepherd
in the texts
Stromata
Christian text quoted saying that a pure and blameless heart will escape the wild beast's power.
"You shall escape the energy of the wild beast if your heart becomes pure and blameless.
"They went down with them into the water, but these went down living and came up living, while those, the previously fallen asleep, went down dead, but came up living.
De Pudicitia
Text dismissed as apocryphal and associated with lax pardon of adulterers.
" And surely the epistle of Barnabas is more received among the churches than that apocryphal "Shepherd" of the adulterers.
But I would yield to you, if the Scripture of "the Shepherd," which alone loves adulterers, had deserved to be inserted in the divine instrument;