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Illustrative teaching essay: three unnamed adults stand steadily together on level ground with hopeful composed expressions.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section xiii

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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.
  • Reading paragraph 4 [a]: Repentance and related expressions are read in this works own context; they are not restricted to feeling sorry, and no uniform Godward formula is imposed. Use repentance for moral change while preserving the works own teaching about baptism, forgiveness, conduct and the angel of repentance; do not impose a different tradition on it.

Shepherd of Hermas 21:4

The Revelation Is Complete

The Third Form and Firm Foundation · Shepherd of Hermas 21

Story guide: Wholehearted repentance is linked with being new and firmly founded. The explanation ends further questioning; anything needed will be revealed.

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4Therefore those who have repented completely will be new and firmly founded, those who have repented from their whole heart. You have the revelation complete. No longer ask anything about revelation; but if anything is needed, it will be revealed to you.

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