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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section iv
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 12:2
The First-Created Angels
The Builders, the Carriers and the Double-Minded · Shepherd of Hermas 12
Story guide: Her seated explanation is followed by a recalling essay of the six distinct builders at the unfinished tower. Their identification adds no physical transformation.
Open this scene in the reader →2"These are the holy angels of God, the first-created, to whom the Lord entrusted all his creation, to increase and to build and to rule over all creation. By these, therefore, the building of the tower will be brought to completion."
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