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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section xii
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 20:3
Strengthened for Peace
The Second Form and Renewed Strength · Shepherd of Hermas 20
Story guide: Renewed spirits and strengthening in faith are linked with peace. The revealed tower is recalled; further revelation remains conditional and is not supplied here.
Open this scene in the reader →3“For he had compassion on you and renewed your spirits, and you put away your softness; strength came to you and you were strengthened in faith; and when the Lord saw your strengthening, he rejoiced. For this reason he made known to you the building of the tower, and he will make other things known, if, with a whole heart, you are at peace among yourselves.”
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