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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 7
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 34:2
Do Not Fear the Devil
Fear of the Lord and Keeping the Commandments · Shepherd of Hermas 34
Story guide: The instruction says not to fear the devil and contrasts power with powerlessness.
Open this scene in the reader →22. But do not fear the devil; for by fearing the Lord you will gain mastery over the devil, because there is no power in him. In one in whom there is no power, there is no fear; but in one in whom there is glorious power, there is also fear. For everyone who has power has fear, but the one who has no power is despised by all.
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