Apocrypha · Chapter 41 of 114
Visions and Mandates
And the friends and counselors are the holy angels who were created first.
2And the absence of the lord is the time remaining before his coming.
3I said: Lord, great and wonderful are all things, and all are glorious.
4Was there, therefore, I said, any possibility of my understanding them? Nor any other man, however wise he might be, would have power to understand them.
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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.