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The young, white-haired woman’s serious face appears in a tight portrait toward Hermas.
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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 13:5

The Time to Repent

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

Story guide: Her serious counsel leads to nearby unused stones and the unfinished tower. These essays keep the condition tied to the building still being underway.

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5“And those whom they were casting away and throwing aside—who are they?” “These are people who have sinned and want to repent. For this reason they were not flung far away outside the tower, because they will be useful for the building, if they repent. Therefore those who are going to repent—if they repent—will be strong in the faith, if they repent now, while the tower is being built. But if the building is completed, they no longer have a place, but will be cast out. But they have only this: to lie beside the tower.”

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