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The seated woman counsels Hermas calmly with her hands resting in her lap.
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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 12:6

Revealed for the Double-Minded

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

Story guide: Her calm counsel is followed by anonymous questioning faces. This disclosed essay illustrates the mentioned disposition; Hermas has not yet delivered a public report.

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6Answering me, she says, "It is not because you are more worthy than all that it is revealed to you; for there are others before you and better than you, to whom it was fitting that these visions should be revealed. But in order that the name of God might be glorified, it has been revealed to you and will be revealed, for the sake of the double-minded—those who reason within their hearts whether these things are so or not. Tell them that all these things are true, and nothing is outside the truth; rather, all are strong and sure and well-founded."

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