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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 14:5
White and Round
Cracked Stones, Round Stones and Useful Lives · Shepherd of Hermas 14
Story guide: The rounded-stone essay is followed by Hermas’s question and the woman’s calm rebuke. The consequences she describes remain in her speech.
Open this scene in the reader →55. “And the white and round ones that do not fit into the building—who are they, Lady?” She answered me, saying, “How long will you be foolish and without understanding, asking about everything and understanding nothing? These are those who have faith, but also have the wealth of this age. When affliction comes, because of their wealth and their business dealings they deny their Lord.”
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