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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 34:5
The Question about Life
Fear of the Lord and Keeping the Commandments · Shepherd of Hermas 34
Story guide: Hermas asks about living to God; the reply distinguishes fear of the Lord from keeping the commandments.
Open this scene in the reader →55. “Why,” I said, “sir, did you say about those who keep his commandments, ‘They will live to God’?” “Because,” he said, “all creation fears the Lord, but it does not keep his commandments. Therefore the life of those who fear him and keep his commandments is with God; but for those who do not keep his commandments, there is not even life in them.”
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