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The shepherd lists harmful indulgences through their deeds.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 6, section v

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Shepherd of Hermas 58:6

Harmful Indulgences

Harmful Pleasures and Doing Good · Shepherd of Hermas 58

Story guide: The shepherd lists harmful indulgences through the acts that give them pleasure.

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6He says, “Every deed is an indulgence to a person, whatever he does with pleasure. For even the hot‑tempered man, by giving his own passion its fill, indulges himself; and the adulterer and the drunkard and the slanderer and the liar and the greedy person and the defrauder and the one doing things like these gives his own disease its fill; he therefore indulges himself in his act. All these indulgences are harmful to the servants of God. Therefore, because of these deceptions, those who are punished and tormented suffer.

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