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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
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 10:6
Fitted as One Stone
The Tower upon the Waters · Shepherd of Hermas 10
Story guide: A wet stone is set unchanged at the working edge. The following wall essay shows the completed surface as one continuous stone.
Open this scene in the reader →66. The stones hauled up from the deep they set, every one, into the building just as they were; for they were fitted and matched the joining with the other stones, and so were joined to one another, so that their joint was not visible. The construction of the tower appeared as if it had been built from a single stone.
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