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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section viii
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 16:3
Faith and Self-control
Seven Women and the Unfinished Tower · Shepherd of Hermas 16
Story guide: The first woman’s clasped hands identify Faith; the girded second woman is Self-control. Their separate portraits disclose the personifications named in the explanation.
Open this scene in the reader →3Hear their functions. The first of them, the one clasping her hands, is called Faith; through her the chosen of God are saved. And the second, the one girded about and acting bravely, is called Self-control; she is the daughter of Faith. Whoever, then, follows her becomes blessed in his life, because he will refrain from all evil works, believing that if he refrains from every evil desire he will inherit eternal life.”
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