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Branching earth paths illustrate divided and united direction.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2, section ii

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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 6:4

Wholehearted Repentance

Understanding the Writing: Repentance and Perseverance · Shepherd of Hermas 6

Story guide: Visual essay: divided paths illustrate the tension between wholehearted repentance and double-mindedness. This terrain is a metaphor, not a narrated journey.

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4After you have made known to them these words which the Master commanded me to be revealed to you, then all their sins that they formerly committed are forgiven them, and also to all the holy ones who have sinned up to this day, if they repent with all their heart and remove from their heart their double‑mindedness.

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