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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 4:3
Take Courage, Hermas
Departure and the Call to Courage · Shepherd of Hermas 4
Story guide: Arrival, bodily lifting by the elbows and cheerful farewell are distinct frames. Rightward travel interprets the narrated east.
Open this scene in the reader →3While she was speaking with me, two men appeared, lifted her by the elbows, and went away to where the chair also was, toward the east. She went away cheerful, and as she was going she said to me, "Take courage, Hermas."
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