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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section vi
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 14:2
The Rough-Crusted Stones
Cracked Stones, Round Stones and Useful Lives · Shepherd of Hermas 14
Story guide: The thick earthy crust on these unused stones distinguishes them from the fitted white blocks. This specimen essay recalls the stones named in the explanation.
Open this scene in the reader →22. “And the others you saw—many lying there, not going into the building—these are the scabby ones: they came to know the truth, but did not remain in it, nor did they join themselves to the saints; therefore they are useless.
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