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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 32:4
Gentleness and Quiet
Long-suffering, Honey, and the Warning about Quick Temper · Shepherd of Hermas 32
Story guide: The teaching joins long-suffering with gentleness and quiet, contrasting it with bitterness.
Open this scene in the reader →4You see, then, that long-suffering is sweeter than honey and is serviceable to the Lord, and he dwells in it; but quick temper is bitter and useless. If, therefore, quick temper is mixed with long-suffering, long-suffering is defiled and is no longer useful to God. Long-suffering at all times has nothing bitter within itself, remaining always gentle and quiet. This long-suffering, then, dwells with those who have the faith complete.
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