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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 1, section iv
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 4:2
Gentle and Harsh Words
Departure and the Call to Courage · Shepherd of Hermas 4
Story guide: The chest-touch question and reverse reply separate the dialogue. The distinction between righteous people, nations and apostates remains in the exact text.
Open this scene in the reader →2Then she called me over, touched my chest, and said to me, "Did my reading please you?" And I said to her, "Lady, these last things please me, but the earlier things are hard and harsh." But she said to me, "These last things are for the righteous, but the earlier are for the nations and for the apostates."
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