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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 49:7
The Hidden Difference
The Trees in Winter and Summer · Shepherd of Hermas 49
Story guide: Bare branches accompany the explanation that the difference is not apparent in winter.
Open this scene in the reader →73. “For just as in winter the trees, having cast off their leaves, are alike, and it is not apparent which are dry or which are living, so in this age neither the righteous nor the sinners are apparent, but all are alike.”
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