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The Shepherd of Hermas 35

Visions and Mandates

ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT: He showed me people sitting on a bench, and another person sitting on a chair.

2And he said to me: Do you see those sitting on the bench? I see, lord, I said. These, he said, are faithful.

3And the one sitting on the chair is a false prophetess who destroys the servants of God. It is those who doubt, not those who have faith, that she destroys.

4These doubters go to her as to a soothsayer and ask what will happen to them. And she, the false prophetess, having no power of divine spirit in herself, answers according to their questions and according to the desires of their wickedness.

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About The Shepherd of Hermas

Visions, commandments and parables received by a former slave in Rome, debating whether there is a second chance after grave sin. It was read as Scripture in several ancient churches.