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Small hail pellets rest on rough stone.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 11

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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.
  • Reading paragraph 4 [a]: Repentance and related expressions are read in this works own context; they are not restricted to feeling sorry, and no uniform Godward formula is imposed. Retain change their minds: this is retreat from baptism or vacillation into divination, not repentance toward God. Preserve the adverse direction.

Shepherd of Hermas 40:16

Hail and Falling Water

Testing the Prophet by the Life · Shepherd of Hermas 40

Story guide: Small hail and falling water accompany the two surviving comparisons about power from above.

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1620. Take now the power that comes from above. Hail is a very small pellet, and when it falls on a man’s head, how much pain it causes! Or again, take a drop that falls from the roof tile to the ground, and it bores through the stone.

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