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The seated woman speaks to attentive Hermas on their shared ivory couch.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section iii

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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 2 [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 11:2

Hearers, Joy and Tears

The Church, the Tower and the Waters · Shepherd of Hermas 11

Story guide: The dialogue is followed by a prospective-hearer essay of joyful and tearful faces. Her calm rebuke returns the sequence to the couch.

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2She said, "Many indeed will hear; and, having heard, some of them will rejoice, but some will weep. But even these, if they hear and repent, they too will rejoice. Therefore listen to the parables of the tower, for I will reveal everything to you. And no longer cause me trouble about revelations, for these revelations have an end, for they have been completed. But you will not stop asking for revelations, for you are shameless."

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