Pastor de Hermas 110

1“Todas estas coisas que estão escritas acima, eu, o Pastor, o mensageiro do arrependimento, mostrei e disse aos servos de Deus. Se, portanto, credes e escutais as minhas palavras e andais nelas e emendais os vossos caminhos, tereis em vosso poder viver: mas se permanecerdes na maldade e na lembrança de ofensas, nenhum pecador dessa classe viverá para Deus. Todas estas palavras que eu tinha a dizer foram-vos ditas.”

1“All these things which are written above, I, the Shepherd, the messenger of repentance, have showed and spoken to the servants of God. If therefore ye believe, and listen to my words, and walk in them, and amend your ways, you shall have it in your power to live: but if you remain in wickedness, and in the recollection of offences, no sinner of that class will live unto God. All these words which I had to say have been spoken unto you.”

2O Pastor me disse: “Perguntaste-me tudo?” E respondi: “Sim, senhor.” “Por que não me perguntaste a respeito da forma das pedras que foram postas na construção, para que eu te explicasse por que preenchemos as formas?” E disse: “Esqueci, senhor.” “Ouve agora, então,” disse, “a respeito disto também. Estes são os que agora ouviram os meus mandamentos e se arrependeram de todo o coração.

2The Shepherd said to me, “Have you asked me everything?” And I replied, “Yes, sir.” “Why did you not ask me about the shape of the stones that were put into the building, that I might explain to you why we filled up the shapes?” And I said, “I forgot, sir.” “Hear now, then,” he said, “about this also. These are they who have now heard my commandments, and repented with their whole hearts.

3E quando o Senhor viu que o seu arrependimento era bom e puro e que podiam permanecer nele, ordenou que os seus pecados anteriores fossem apagados. Pois estas formas eram os seus pecados, e foram niveladas, para que não aparecessem.”

3And when the Lord saw that their repentance was good and pure, and that they were able to remain in it, He ordered their former sins to be blotted out. For these shapes were their sins, and they were levelled down, that they might not appear.”