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The youthful white-haired Church woman speaks soberly with one natural hand near her chest as Hermas listens.
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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 18:2

Train One Another in Peace

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

Story guide: The woman warns the church’s leaders against division and calls for mutual training, peace and a pure heart. The poison is a spoken comparison.

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2I say to you who lead the church and to the first-seaters: do not become like poisoners. Poisoners carry their drugs in boxes; but you carry your drug and your poison in your heart. You are encrusted and do not wish to cleanse your hearts and to bring your understanding together as one in a pure heart, so that you may receive mercy from the great King. Watch then, children, lest these dissensions of yours deprive you of life. How can you wish to train the Lord’s chosen ones when you yourselves do not have training? Train one another and be at peace among yourselves, so that I also, standing joyfully before the Father, may give an account on behalf of you all to your Lord.

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