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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 12, section ii
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 42:5
Serve the Good Desire
Resist Evil Desire and Serve Righteousness · Shepherd of Hermas 42
Story guide: An image of sharing accompanies the instruction to serve good desire and master evil desire.
Open this scene in the reader →55. So then, having been crowned against it, come to the desire for righteousness, and, handing over to it the victory you received, serve it as it wills. If you serve the good desire and submit to it, you will be able to master the evil desire and to subject it as you wish.
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