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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 52:4
The Interpretation Concludes
The Interpretation of the Vineyard · Shepherd of Hermas 52
Story guide: The shepherd concludes with the source’s account of counsel, service, dwelling and reward.
Open this scene in the reader →4Therefore he took the Son and the glorious angels as counselors, in order that this flesh also, having served the Spirit blamelessly, might have some place of dwelling, and might not seem to have lost the reward of its service. For every flesh that is found undefiled and unstained, in which the Holy Spirit has dwelt, will receive a reward. You have the interpretation of this parable also.”
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