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The youthful white-haired Church woman counsels peace with open hands while Hermas listens on the ivory couch.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section x

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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 18:1

Share with Those in Need

Sharing, Departure, and Three Forms · Shepherd of Hermas 18

Story guide: Peace and care require sharing with the hungry. The teaching illustrations disclose possible conduct and a warning while the tower remains unfinished.

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1Be made holy from all wickedness and from all crookedness. But you do not want to depart from your wickedness. Now then, listen to me and be at peace among yourselves, and look after one another and support one another; and do not alone partake of God’s creatures in an overflow of abundance, but share also with those who are in want. For some, from their many foods, bring weakness upon the flesh and ruin their flesh; but the flesh of those who do not have food is ruined because they do not have enough nourishment, and their body is destroyed. This lack of moderation then is harmful to you who have and do not share with those who lack. Look to the judgment that is coming. Therefore, you who are well-off, seek out the hungry while the tower is not yet finished; for after the tower has been finished you will want to do good, and you will not have a place. So watch, you who pride yourselves in your wealth, lest those in need should groan, and their groaning go up to the Lord, and you be shut out together with your useless goods outside the door of the tower.

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