The Vat. has here a considerable number of sentences, found in the Greek, the Palatine, and the Æthiopic, in Commandment Eleventh. In consequence of this transference, the Eleventh Commandment in the Vatican differs considerably from the others in the position of the sentences, but otherwise it is substantially the same. Footnote 1669: _And ... business._ This part is omitted in the Leipsic Codex, and is supplied from the Latin and Æthiopic translations. Footnote 1670: _This ... repented_, omitted in Vat. Footnote 1671: _God._ The Lord.—_Vat._, _Æth._ Footnote 1672: _God._ The Lord.—_Vat._ Footnote 1673: _Grief._ Injustice.—_Vat._ Footnote 1674: ἐξομολογούμενος one would expect here to mean “giving thanks,” a meaning which it has in the New Testament; but as ἐξομολογοῦμαι means to “confess” throughout the _Pastor of Hermas_, it is likely that it means “confessing” here also. Footnote 1675: _Is ... God._ He who sits in the chair is a terrestrial spirit.—_Vat._ And then follows the dislocation of sentences noticed above. Footnote 1676: _The spirit of all men is earthly_, etc. This passage, down to “it is not possible that the prophet of God should do this,” is found in the Vat. and other MSS. of the common translation, with the exception of the Lambeth, in Commandment Twelfth. Footnote 1677: _Angel of the prophetic Spirit._ The holy messenger (angel) of Divinity.—_Vat._ Footnote 1678: _Earth._ After this the Vatican reads: Join yourself, therefore, to that which has power, and withdraw from that one which is empty. Footnote 1679: _For ... God._ This desire, therefore, is wicked and destructive, bringing death on the servants of God. Whoever, therefore, shall abstain from evil desire, shall live to God.—_Vat._ Footnote 1680: _God._ The Lord.—_Vat._ Footnote 1681: _Go ... wishes._ And you will obtain the victory, and will be crowned on account of it, and you will arrive at good desire, and you will deliver up the victory which you have obtained to God, and you will serve Him by acting even as you yourself wish to act.—_Vat._ Footnote 1682: Chapters third, fourth, and part of fifth, are omitted in the Palatine. Footnote 1683: _God._ The Lord.—_Vat._ Footnote 1684: _If ... kept_, omitted in Vat. Footnote 1685: Isa. xxix. 13; Matt. xv. 8. Footnote 1686: John xii. 40; 2 Cor. iii. 14. Footnote 1687: _Empty._ Half full.—_Vat._ Footnote 1688: _Trust God._ Believe ye, then, who on account of your sins have forgotten God.—_Vat._ Footnote 1689: _Practise ... days_, omitted in Vat. Footnote 1690: Matt. x. 28; Luke xii. 5. Footnote 1691: _Rule over ... commandments._ But we shall conquer him completely, if we can keep these commandments.—_Vat._ BOOK THIRD.—SIMILITUDES. SIMILITUDES WHICH HE SPAKE WITH ME.