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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 1, section iii
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.
- Reading paragraph 2 [a]: Repentance and related expressions are read in this works own context; they are not restricted to feeling sorry, and no uniform Godward formula is imposed. Use repentance for moral change while preserving the works own teaching about baptism, forgiveness, conduct and the angel of repentance; do not impose a different tradition on it.
Shepherd of Hermas 3:4
Creation and the Promise
Counsel for the Household and Words of Creation · Shepherd of Hermas 3
Story guide: Visual essay: waters, earth, sky and level terrain interpret the quoted hymn. The images do not reconstruct historical events.
Open this scene in the reader →4“Behold, the God of hosts, who by his invisible and mighty power and by his great understanding created the world, and by his glorious counsel adorned his creation with beauty, and by his mighty word fixed the heaven and founded the earth upon the waters, and by his own wisdom and providence created his holy church, which also he blessed—behold, he is moving the heavens and the mountains and the hills and the seas, and all things become level for his elect, in order that he may give to them the promise which he promised with much glory and joy, if they keep the statutes of God which they received with great faith.”
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