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Hermas asks about the end while both remain seated on the shared ivory couch.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section viii

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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.

Shepherd of Hermas 16:6

Is It Already the End?

Seven Women and the Unfinished Tower · Shepherd of Hermas 16

Story guide: His repeated question, her loud reply and the unfinished-course essay separate the exchange from the future completion she describes.

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6And I kept asking her about the times—whether it is already the end. But she cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Senseless man, do you not see that the tower is still being built? Whenever, then, the tower is completed in its building, it comes to an end. But it will be built up quickly. Do not question me any further; this reminder and the renewal of your spirits are enough for you and for the holy ones.

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