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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 18:5
The Three Forms Remembered
Sharing, Departure, and Three Forms · Shepherd of Hermas 18
Story guide: The account recalls an aged seated form, a younger countenance with older flesh and hair, then a wholly youthful, cheerful form with only old hair.
Open this scene in the reader →5She appeared to me, brothers, in the first vision—the one last year—very aged and sitting on a chair. And in the second vision her appearance was younger, but her flesh and her hair were older, and as she stood she spoke to me; and she was more cheerful than before. And in the third vision she was wholly younger and most distinguished in beauty, only her hair was older; and she was cheerful to the end and was seated on a cushioned seat.
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