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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 4
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 49:11
Fruit Makes the Difference Visible
The Trees in Winter and Summer · Shepherd of Hermas 49
Story guide: Fruit on a living branch accompanies the comparison about what becomes visible in summer.
Open this scene in the reader →113. “For just as in summer the fruits of each tree become visible and are recognized for what they are, so also the fruits of the righteous will be visible, and all will be known, [those who are least] being flourishing in that age.”
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