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Hermas sits alone in a modest room, distressed and intent on understanding the three appearances.
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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section x

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Existing reader manuscript-image reference: Codex Sinaiticus. Working source: Lightfoot & Harmer 1891 (normalized OCR) · Greek

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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 18:6

Humility, Fasting, and Counsel

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

Story guide: Distressed Hermas hears the aged woman in a separate night vision, fasts one day, and that night receives the young man’s caution.

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6About these things I was very much distressed, wanting to know this revelation. And I see the aged woman in a vision of the night, saying to me: “Every inquiry has need of humility; therefore fast, and you will receive what you ask from the Lord.” So I fasted one day, and on that very night a young man appeared to me and said to me: “Since you are asking for revelations in prayer, watch lest by asking for many things you harm your flesh. These revelations are sufficient for you. Are you able to see revelations more powerful than those you have seen?”

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