Graphic Bible · Scene 3 of 4

The shepherd explains the source teaching about flesh and the Holy Spirit.
AI-generated artwork interprets this work's literary visions and teaching, not authenticated historical events or portraits. Source and translation notes preserve the available edition's limits and review uncertainty. Reported literary teaching

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 52:3

Flesh and Spirit

The Interpretation of the Vineyard · Shepherd of Hermas 52

Story guide: The shepherd explains the source’s teaching about flesh serving with the Holy Spirit.

Open this scene in the reader →

3The Holy Spirit, which preexisted, which created all creation, God caused to dwell in flesh that he willed. This flesh, then, in which the Holy Spirit dwelt, served the Spirit well, walking in modesty and purity, in no way at all defiling the Spirit. Therefore, since it had conducted itself well and purely, and had toiled together with the Spirit and cooperated in every matter, conducting itself strongly and courageously, he chose it as a partner with the Holy Spirit; for the conduct of this flesh pleased [the Lord], because it was not defiled upon the earth while having the Holy Spirit.

Step through the story beside the Scripture itself. About the People’s Open Bible