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Water beads cover a square pale stone at the unfinished tower edge.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section v

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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 5 [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 13:2

Those Drawn from the Deep

Fitted Stones and the Time to Repent · Shepherd of Hermas 13

Story guide: The wet-stone essay recalls those drawn from the deep. Her solemn answer explains their meaning without supplying a scene of suffering.

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2“And the ones drawn up from the deep and set into the building and fitting together at their joints with the other stones already built—who are they?” “These are the ones who suffered on account of the name of the Lord.”

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