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The shepherd recalls faith, fear and self-control while Hermas listens.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 6, section i

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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 33:1

Recall, Powers, and Paths

The Straight Path and the Works of the Two Angels · Shepherd of Hermas 33

Story guide: The shepherd recalls faith, fear and self-control, and contrasts the straight path of righteousness with the crooked path.

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1He says, “I commanded you in the first commandment to keep faith and fear and self-control.” “Yes, lord,” I say. “But now,” he says, “I also want to make known to you their powers, so that you may understand what power and activity each of them has. For their activities are twofold; so they are set over the righteous and the unrighteous. So you—trust the righteous, but do not trust the unrighteous; for righteousness has a straight path, but unrighteousness a crooked one. But you, walk on the straight [and level] path, and leave the crooked.

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