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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 2
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.
- Reading paragraph 7 [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 27:2
Do Not Welcome Slander
Simplicity, Speech, and Giving · Shepherd of Hermas 27
Story guide: The warning forbids both slandering and taking pleasure in hearing it, explaining how believing slander implicates the hearer.
Open this scene in the reader →2First of all, slander no one, and do not listen with pleasure to someone who slanders; otherwise you too, the hearer, will be guilty of the slanderer’s sin if you believe the slander you hear. For by believing it, you yourself also will have something against your brother. Thus you will be guilty of the slanderer’s sin.
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