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Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 3
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 28:5
Hear and Keep the Command
Truth, Confession, and the Command to Keep · Shepherd of Hermas 28
Story guide: The concluding reply urges keeping the teaching and speaking truth from now on, linking these with credibility and life to God.
Open this scene in the reader →5‘Now then,’ he says, ‘you are hearing; keep them, so that even the former lies that you spoke in your dealings, if these are found true, those also may become credible; for those too can become credible. If you keep these and from now on speak all truth, you will be able to gain life for yourself. And whoever hears this command and abstains from the most evil lie will live to God.’
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