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One square dry pale stone rests on grass beside the water and unfinished tower.
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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 13:3

Entering Unhewn

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

Story guide: A dry stone and its placement detail recall the land-brought stones entering unchanged. Their approval is spoken rather than shown as a visible divine sign.

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3“I want to know who the other stones are that are being carried from the dry land, lady.” She said, “Those that go into the building without being hewn—the Lord approved these, because they walked in the uprightness of the Lord and kept his commandments.”

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