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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, 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.
Shepherd of Hermas 10:4
Seated before the Tower
The Tower upon the Waters · Shepherd of Hermas 10
Story guide: The hand-taking, completed rise, seating, lifted rod, puzzled reply and tower reveal unfold separately. The rear reveal preserves the same physical seating despite reversing screen positions.
Open this scene in the reader →44. And again she took hold of my hand, raised me up, and seated me on the bench on the left; and she herself sat on the right. And, lifting up a certain bright rod, she says to me, “Do you see a great thing?” I say to her, “Lady, I see nothing.” She says to me, “[You,] look—do you not see opposite you a great tower being built upon the waters with square, shining stones?”
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