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Fields and a dwelling accompany the teaching about possessions.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 1

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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.

Shepherd of Hermas 47:6

Fields and Dwellings

Faith, Righteousness, and the Other City · Shepherd of Hermas 47

Story guide: Fields and a dwelling accompany the unfinished warning about possessions under another city’s authority.

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6Foolish, double‑minded, and wretched man, do you not understand that all these things are alien, and are under the authority of another? For the lord of this city will say, ‘I do not want you to dwell in my city; rather, go out from this city, because you do not make use of my laws.’ So then, you—having fields and dwellings and many other possessions—when you are cast out by him, what will you do with your field and your house, and the rest of the things you have prepared for yourself? For the lord of this land says to you, rightly, ‘Either make use of my laws, or withdraw from my land.’ So then, what are you about to do, having…

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