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The young, white-haired woman speaks earnestly with two natural open palms toward Hermas’s blurred shoulder.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section ix

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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 17:1

Listen to Me, Children

Listen to Me, Children — A Fragmentary Address · Shepherd of Hermas 17

Story guide: The woman’s address stays within the established dialogue setting. The available paragraph breaks off after “and …”; the image supplies no continuation.

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1Listen to me, children. I reared you in great simplicity and innocence and dignity, through the mercy of the Lord, who caused righteousness to drip upon you, so that you might be justified and …

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