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Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 1
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 47:4
Hermas Expresses Hope
Faith, Righteousness, and the Other City · Shepherd of Hermas 47
Story guide: Hermas expresses hope that he can keep the commandments with the Lord’s strength.
Open this scene in the reader →4I say to him, “Lord, now I have been strengthened in all the righteous requirements of the Lord, because you are with me; and I know that you will cut off all the devil’s power, and we shall gain mastery over him and prevail against all his works. And I hope, Lord, that now I can keep these commandments that you have commanded, with the Lord strengthening me.”
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