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The shepherd instructs attentive Hermas to love truth, in the inferred domestic teaching setting.
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Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 3

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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.

Shepherd of Hermas 28:1

Love Truth

Truth, Confession, and the Command to Keep · Shepherd of Hermas 28

Story guide: The command urges truth in speech and connects it with the true spirit given by God and the Lord’s own truthfulness.

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1Again he says to me: “Love truth, and let all truth go forth from your mouth, so that the spirit which God has caused to dwell in this flesh may be found true before all people, and thus the Lord who dwells in you will be glorified; for the Lord is true in every word, and there is no falsehood with him.

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