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Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 5, section i
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 32:1
Long-suffering and Good Sense
Long-suffering, Honey, and the Warning about Quick Temper · Shepherd of Hermas 32
Story guide: The shepherd urges long-suffering and good sense, describing the holy spirit’s glad service where it dwells.
Open this scene in the reader →1“Be long-suffering,” he says, “and sensible, and you will gain mastery over all wicked deeds and do every work of righteousness. For if you are long-suffering, the holy spirit that dwells in you will be pure, not being darkened by another evil spirit; rather, dwelling in a wide space it will exult and rejoice with the vessel in which it dwells, and it will minister to God with much cheerfulness, having prosperity within itself.
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