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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 5, section iii
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 51:4
Keep These Things
Understanding the Fast and Its Service · Shepherd of Hermas 51
Story guide: The instruction extends to Hermas, his children and his household, with its conditional promise.
Open this scene in the reader →4"You shall keep these things thus—you, with your children and your whole household; and having kept them you will be blessed; and as many as, having heard them, keep them will be blessed, and they will receive understanding from the Lord."
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