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1After she had spoken these words the Heavens were shut, and I was all shuddering and in grief. And I began to say in myself: “If this sin is recorded against me, how shall I be saved? Or how shall I propitiate God for my completed sins? Or with what words shall I beseech the Lord to be forgiving unto me?” 2While I was considering and doubting these things in my heart I saw before me a white chair made of snow-white wool of great size; and there came a woman, old and clothed in shining garments with a book in her hand, and she sat down alone and greeted me: “Hail, Hermas!” And I, in my grief and weeping, said: ‘“Hail, Lady!” 3And she said to me: “Why are you gloomy, Hermas? You who are patient and goodtempered, who are always laughing, why are you so downcast in appearance and not merry?” And I said to her: “Because of a most excellent lady, who says that I sinned against her.” 4And she said: “By no means let this thing happen to the servant of God; but for all that the thought did enter your heart concerning her. It is such a design as this which brings sin on the servants of God. For it is an evil and mad purpose against a revered spirit and one already approved, if a man desire an evil deed, and especially if it be Hermas the temperate, who abstains from every evil desire and is full of all simplicity and great innocence.