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Seated Hermas asks the young, white-haired woman about the six builders.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section iv

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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 12:1

Who Are the Six?

The Builders, the Carriers and the Double-Minded · Shepherd of Hermas 12

Story guide: Hermas’s wondering question turns attention to the six young men already seen building the tower.

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1Answering, I say to her, "Lady, this matter is great and marvelous. And the six young men who are building—who are they, Lady?"

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