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Standing Hermas faces the young, white-haired Church woman in a close reverse dialogue view.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, 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.

Shepherd of Hermas 10:1

Endurance, Gifts and Promises

The Tower upon the Waters · Shepherd of Hermas 10

Story guide: Dialogue introduces endurance for the Name. The empty-couch essay places both sides in equal light, illustrating the stated gifts and promises.

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11. “What,” I said, “did they endure?” She says, “Listen: scourges, imprisonments, great afflictions, crosses, wild beasts—for the sake of the Name. For this reason the right-hand parts of the sanctuary belong to them, and to whoever suffers because of the Name; but the left-hand parts belong to the rest. Yet for both, those sitting on the right and those on the left, the gifts are the same and the promises the same—only those on the right sit there and have some glory.”

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