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Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 12, section v
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 45:2
The Concern about Strength
The Full and Empty Wine Jars · Shepherd of Hermas 45
Story guide: Hermas describes the desire for strength and his concern about the devil’s tyranny.
Open this scene in the reader →2"A person," I say, "Lord, is eager to keep the commandments of God, and there is no one who does not ask from the Lord to be strengthened in his commandments and to be subject to them; but the devil is harsh and tyrannizes them."
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