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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 16:7
Speak after Three Days
Seven Women and the Unfinished Tower · Shepherd of Hermas 16
Story guide: The rear view shows Hermas listening to her instruction. The three-day delay and the hearers’ cleansing remain part of what she tells him.
Open this scene in the reader →7But it was not revealed to you alone, but so that you may make them known to all. After three days—for first you must understand, and I first command you, Hermas, the words I am about to say to you—speak them all into the ears of the holy ones, so that, after hearing them and doing them, they may be cleansed from their evils, and you also with them.”
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