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Illustrative teaching reflection: an unnamed adult offers an older woman ordinary provisions.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 8

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.

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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 35:10

The Works to Practice

Self-control from Evil and the Practice of Good · Shepherd of Hermas 35

Story guide: The teaching names service, hospitality, humility, patience, encouragement and considerate treatment among the works to practice.

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10“Next, hear what follows these: to serve widows; to visit orphans and those in want; to redeem the servants of God from distresses; to be hospitable (for in hospitality one sometimes finds an opportunity for doing good); to oppose no one; to be quiet; to become lower than all people; to honor the elderly; to practice righteousness; to preserve the brotherhood; to endure insult; to be long‑suffering; to have no resentment; to encourage those who are weary in soul; not to cast off those who have stumbled away from the faith, but to turn them back and make them cheerful; to admonish those who sin; not to oppress debtors and the needy; and if there is anything like these.

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