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Hermas and the shepherd look at sprouting and dry trees.
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Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 4

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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 49:9

Sprouting and Dry Trees

The Trees in Winter and Summer · Shepherd of Hermas 49

Story guide: The shepherd shows sprouting and dry trees, and Hermas names the difference.

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91. He showed me again many trees, some sprouting and others dry, and he says to me, “Do you see these trees?” “I see,” I say, “sir, some sprouting and others dry.”

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