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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

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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 33:2

Recognize the Harmful Works

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

Story guide: The warning describes a rough way and harmful works, including temper, extravagance and desires, as activities to recognize.

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2For the crooked path has no tracks, but pathless places and many stumbling blocks; and it is rough and thorny. Therefore it is harmful. But hear also the works of the other way. First of all, if there should come upon you a quick temper or bitterness, know that he is in you. Then come desire for many activities, and extravagance in many foods and drinks, and many drunken sprees, and various luxuries, and things that are not fitting; and desire for women, and greed, and arrogance, and boastfulness, and whatever things are akin and similar to these. Therefore, whenever these things rise up in your heart, know that the angel of wickedness is with you.

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