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The elderly woman walks while reading her little book before Hermas.
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Shepherd of Hermas 5:3

Let Me Copy the Book

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Story guide: Her appearance, Hermas’s request and the book exchange have separate images. The exact dialogue appears once.

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3And after I rose from prayer, I see before me the elderly woman whom I had also seen last year, walking and reading a little book. And she says to me, “Are you able to report these things to the elect of God?” I say to her, “Lady, I am not able to remember so many things; but give me the little book, so that I may copy it.” “Take it,” she says, “and you will give it back to me.”

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