Graphic Bible · Scene 3 of 8
Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section x
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 18:3
Carried toward the Tower
Sharing, Departure, and Three Forms · Shepherd of Hermas 18
Story guide: Six builders carry the woman, and four others carry the cushioned seat. Their faces stay turned away; the carrying arrangement is an artistic inference.
Open this scene in the reader →3X. When she had ceased speaking with me, the six young men who were building came and carried her to the tower, and four others lifted the cushioned seat and carried it also to the tower. I did not see their faces, because they were turned away.
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