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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 4, section ii
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 23:1
A Figure All in White
An Encounter in White · Shepherd of Hermas 23
Story guide: After the beast encounter and a further thirty feet, Hermas meets a virgin in white clothing and sandals, with a forehead veil, turban and white hair.
Open this scene in the reader →1After the beast had passed by me and I had gone forward about thirty feet, behold, a virgin meets me, adorned as if coming out of a bridal chamber, all in white and with white sandals, veiled up to her forehead; her covering was with a turban, and her hair was white.
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