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Hermas listens to the elderly woman’s counsel.
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Shepherd of Hermas 3:1

The Household Must Turn Back

Counsel for the Household and Words of Creation · Shepherd of Hermas 3

Story guide: The counsel stays with its visionary speaker; no unspecified household sin is invented.

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1But it is not for this that God is angry with you, but so that you may turn back your household, which has sinned against the Lord and against us, their parents. Yet, being fond of your children, you did not admonish your household, but you let it be grievously ruined; for this the Lord is angry with you. But he will heal all the past evils in your household; for because of their sins and lawless deeds you yourself were ruined by worldly affairs.

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