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Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 10, section i
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 37:6
Seek and Understand
Sorrow, Understanding, and the Neglected Vineyard · Shepherd of Hermas 37
Story guide: The shepherd calls Hermas to seek the divine and truth with attention.
Open this scene in the reader →6“But those who have the fear of God and inquire about the divine and the truth and have their heart toward the Lord quickly understand and comprehend everything spoken to them, because they have the fear of the Lord within themselves; for where the Lord dwells, there also is abundant understanding. Therefore cling to the Lord, and you will understand and comprehend all things.”
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