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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 10:5
Six Builders and Many Porters
The Tower upon the Waters · Shepherd of Hermas 10
Story guide: The six principal builders remain distinct from anonymous porters. Separate views follow stones from water, stones from land and their handoff.
Open this scene in the reader →55. The tower was being built in a square by the six young men who had come with her; and myriads of other men were bringing stones, some from the deep and others from the land, and were handing them to the six young men. They would take them and build.
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