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The shepherd identifies himself as the angel of repentance and tells Hermas not to fear.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 12, section iv

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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 3 [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. Use repentance for moral change while preserving the works own teaching about baptism, forgiveness, conduct and the angel of repentance; do not impose a different tradition on it.

Shepherd of Hermas 44:3

The Angel of Repentance

Can These Commandments Be Kept · Shepherd of Hermas 44

Story guide: The shepherd identifies himself as the angel of repentance and urges Hermas not to fear the devil.

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3I say to you: if you do not keep these, but neglect them, do not follow the commandments of the devil, which are difficult and bitter and savage and licentious; and do not fear the devil, because he has no power against you. For I will be with you—I, the angel of repentance, who has mastery over him. The devil has only fear, but his fear has no force. Therefore do not fear him, and he will flee from you.”

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