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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
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 32:7
Stand with Long-suffering
Long-suffering, Honey, and the Warning about Quick Temper · Shepherd of Hermas 32
Story guide: The conclusion urges standing against quick temper and keeping the command, retaining its conditional promises.
Open this scene in the reader →7Therefore keep away from quick temper—that most wicked spirit—but clothe yourself with long-suffering, and stand against quick temper and bitterness, and you will be found with the dignity that is beloved by the Lord. See to it, then, that you never neglect this command; for if you gain mastery over this command, you will also be able to keep the other commands that I am about to give you. Be strong in them and be empowered[—], and let all be empowered who wish to walk in them.”
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