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A close view of the shepherd emphasizes the warning about falsehood without a literal spiritual deposit.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
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 28:2

The Warning about Falsehood

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

Story guide: Those who lie are described as defrauding the Lord by returning falsely the spirit they received without falsehood.

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2Therefore those who lie reject the Lord and become defrauders of the Lord, not handing back to him the deposit that they received. For they received from him a spirit without falsehood. If they return it false, they have defiled the command of the Lord and have become defrauders.

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