Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — [222] [Here is a caution against divers Phrygian prophesyings.]
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
[223] [This proverb is found in many languages. Hermas may have been familiar with Ovid, or with the Greek of the poetaster Choerilus, from whom Ovid, with other Latin poets, condescended to borrow it.] [224] Earth. After this the Vatican reads: Join yourself, therefore, to that which has power, and withdraw from that one which is empty. [Hermas seems to apply to the Spirit, in carrying out his figure, those words of the Psalmist, lxxii. 6.] __________________________________________________________________
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