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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.
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 35:12
Keep This Commandment
Self-control from Evil and the Practice of Good · Shepherd of Hermas 35
Story guide: The shepherd concludes by urging Hermas to refrain from evil and practice good.
Open this scene in the reader →12“Therefore keep this commandment. If you do the good and do not exercise self‑control from it, you will live to God—and all who act in this way will live to God. And again, if you do not do the evil and exercise self‑control from it, you will live to God; and all will live to God—whoever keeps these commandments and walks in them.”
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