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A rear oblique view shows both speakers still seated as the woman explains.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section vii

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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 2 [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.
  • Reading paragraph 3 [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. Retain change their minds: this is retreat from baptism or vacillation into divination, not repentance toward God. Preserve the adverse direction.
  • Reading paragraph 4 [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 15:5

The Conditional Transfer

The Rejected Stones and Another Place · Shepherd of Hermas 15

Story guide: The rear view keeps the explanation within their conversation. Hermas’s listening reaction accompanies her conditions for remembrance and transfer.

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5Rather, they will fit in another place, much smaller; and this will be when they have been tormented and have completed the days of their sins. And for this reason they will be transferred, because they have shared in the word of the righteous one. And then it will happen that they are transferred from their torments, if the evil deeds they have done come up into their heart. But if they do not come up into their heart, they are not saved because of their hardness of heart.”

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