I said to the shepherd: 'Lord, why did he send some to the tower and leave others to you?'
2'Since many,' said he, 'transgressed the law they received from him, he left them under my power for repentance; but since many already pleased the law and kept it, he keeps them under his own power.'
3'Who are, then, Lord,' said I, 'those who were crowned and went to the tower?'
4'These,' said he, 'are those who suffered for the law. But the others who also went to the tower, and received seals and the white garment, these are those who kept the law and walked in it.'
5'But those who presented their sticks dry and eaten by worms, who are they?'
6'These,' said he, 'are the apostates and traitors of the church and blasphemers of the Lord in their sins, and furthermore, they are ashamed of the name of the Lord that was invoked upon them. These, therefore, perished totally for God.'