Graphic Bible · Scene 3 of 4
Shepherd of Hermas 3:3
Words Too Great to Bear
Counsel for the Household and Words of Creation · Shepherd of Hermas 3
Story guide: The woman’s reading and Hermas’s overwhelmed reaction are separate frames; unspecified words are not supplied.
Open this scene in the reader →3After she had stopped these words, she says to me, “Do you wish to hear me reading?” And I say, “I do, Lady.” She says to me, “Become a hearer, and hear the glories of God.” I heard great and wondrous things which I was not able to remember; for all the words were terrifying—things a human being is not able to bear. So I remembered the last words, for they were beneficial and gentle for us:
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