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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 16:4
The Other Five Virtues
Seven Women and the Unfinished Tower · Shepherd of Hermas 16
Story guide: His question leads to a five-woman identification essay. Their names and daughter relationships remain in the woman’s reply below.
Open this scene in the reader →4“But the others, lady, who are they?” “They are daughters of one another. And they are called Simplicity, Knowledge, Innocence, Dignity, and Love. Whenever, then, you do all the works of their mother, you are able to live.”
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