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Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 5, section v
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 52:1
The Persistent Questioner
The Interpretation of the Vineyard · Shepherd of Hermas 52
Story guide: The shepherd answers the persistent question and connects the parable’s digging with labor.
Open this scene in the reader →1He says, “I told you just now that you are crafty and headstrong, asking for the interpretations of the parables. But since you are so persistent, I will interpret for you the parable of the field and the rest. He entrusted them to the angels to keep them; and he himself cleansed their sins, having labored much and endured many toils—for no one can dig without toil or labor.
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