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The dust thickens ahead of Hermas as a little sun shines through the haze.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 4, section i

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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

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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.
  • Reading paragraph 3 [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 22:6

A Very Great Beast

The Beast beside the Road · Shepherd of Hermas 22

Story guide: Growing dust and a little sunlight reveal a sea-monster-like beast about a hundred feet long, with a jar-like head and fiery locusts coming from its mouth.

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6As the dust grew greater and greater, I supposed it was something divine. The sun shone out a little, and behold, I see a very great beast, like some sea monster, and from its mouth fiery locusts were coming out. The beast was about a hundred feet in length, and its head was like a jar.

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