Shepherd of Hermas

Chapter 104

  1. 1 "And from the tenth mountain, where were trees sheltering certain sheep, they that believed are such as these;
  2. 2 bishops, hospitable persons, who gladly received into their houses at all times the servants of God without hypocrisy. [These bishops] at all times without ceasing sheltered the needy and the widows in their ministration and conducted themselves in purity at all times.
  3. 3 These [all] then shall be sheltered by the Lord for ever. They therefore that have done these things are glorious in the sight of God, and their place is even now with the angels, if they shall continue unto the end serving the Lord.