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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
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 52:2
Paths and Authority
The Interpretation of the Vineyard · Shepherd of Hermas 52
Story guide: The interpretation continues through cleansing, paths of life, law and authority.
Open this scene in the reader →2Therefore, having cleansed the sins of the people, he showed them the paths of life, giving them the law that he received from his Father. “You see,” he says, “that he himself is Lord of the people, having received all authority from his Father. And as for the Lord’s taking his Son and the glorious angels as counselors concerning the inheritance of the servant—listen.
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