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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 14:3
Cracks beneath a Face of Peace
Cracked Stones, Round Stones and Useful Lives · Shepherd of Hermas 14
Story guide: The close fissure makes the stone’s structural crack visible. It illustrates the quality the woman relates to grievances hidden beneath an outward face of peace.
Open this scene in the reader →33. “And those that have cracks—who are they? These are the ones who harbor things against one another in their hearts and are not at peace among themselves, but have a face of peace; yet when they depart from one another, their evils remain in their hearts. These, then, are the cracks that the stones have.
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