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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2, 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.
- Reading paragraph 4 [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.
- Reading paragraph 5 [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 6:3
Hear and Restrain the Tongue
Understanding the Writing: Repentance and Perseverance · Shepherd of Hermas 6
Story guide: Visual essay: an anonymous woman’s attentive silence interprets listening and restrained speech. She is not a claimed portrait of Hermas’s wife.
Open this scene in the reader →3But make these words known to all your children and to your wife, who is to be your sister; for she too does not refrain from her tongue, by which she acts wickedly. But when she hears these words, she will refrain, and she will obtain mercy.
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