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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section xi
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 19:2
Why She Sat in a Chair
The First Form and the Chair · Shepherd of Hermas 19
Story guide: Hermas asks why she sat. The young man explains the chair as bodily support and the pattern of the first vision.
Open this scene in the reader →2“Why then was she seated in a chair? I wanted to know, sir.” “Because every weak person sits in a chair because of his weakness, in order that the weakness of his body may be supported. You have the pattern of the first vision.”
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