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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 1, section ii
The available POB edition is a partial translation, not a summary or the complete ancient work. Popular, not Scripture. Artwork interprets literary visions and teaching; it does not establish their portrayals as historical events.
Source and translation notes
The text names Hermas as its narrator. The illustrations do not identify a historical author or supply authenticated portraits.
Existing reader manuscript-image reference: Codex Sinaiticus. Working source: Lightfoot & Harmer 1891 (normalized OCR) · Greek
English witness: People's Open Bible provisional English rendering (Cartha Inc. and contributors) · CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — for POB project outputs; source editions retain their original licenses
Numbered reading units are modern paragraph divisions, not ancient verse numbers. The available units follow Visions, Mandates, and Similitudes; absent passages are not reconstructed.
- The available edition begins mid-dialogue and ends mid-sentence in Similitude 8.iv; absent passages are not supplied.
Shepherd of Hermas 2:1
The Heavens Closed
Grief Before the White Chair · Shepherd of Hermas 2
Story guide: The clouded sky interprets the closing heavens; the close view separates Hermas’s grief and self-questioning.
Open this scene in the reader →1After she had spoken these words, the heavens were shut, and I was wholly trembling and grieving. And I said within myself, “If this sin is charged against me, how will I be able to be saved? Or how shall I make atonement to God for my completed sins? Or with what words shall I ask the Lord, that he may be propitious to me?”
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