{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020025.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020025.htm","text":"He showed me many trees having no leaves, p. 33 but withered, as it seemed to me; for all were alike. And he said to me, \u201cDo you see those trees?\u201d \u201cI see, sir,\u201d I replied, \u201cthat all are alike, and withered.\u201d He answered me, and said, \u201cThese trees which you see are those who dwell in this world.\u201d \u201cWhy, then, sir,\u201d I said, \u201care they withered, as it were, and alike?\u201d 258 \u201cBecause,\u201d he said, \u201cneither are the righteous manifest in this life, nor sinners, but they are alike; for this life is a winter to the righteous, and they do not manifest themselves, because they dwell with sinners: for as in winter trees that have cast their leaves are alike, and it is not seen which are dead and which are living, so in this world neither do the righteous show themselves, nor sinners, but all are alike one to another.\u201d 259\nThe Vatican renders this thus: \u201cWhy do they resemble those that are, as it were, withered?\u201d\n33:259","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: THE PASTOR OF HERMAS: Similitude Third. As in Winter Green Trees Cannot Be Distinguished from Withered, So in This World Neither Can the Just from the Unjust.","type":"page"}