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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
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 23:2
Purity, Service, and Cares
An Encounter in White · Shepherd of Hermas 23
Story guide: The supplied counsel connects escape with a pure heart and blameless service, and urges casting cares upon the Lord.
Open this scene in the reader →2I knew that I would escape it, if your heart becomes pure and without blemish, and if for the remaining days of your life you serve the Lord blamelessly. Cast your cares upon the Lord, and he himself will direct them.
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