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A group of sheep grazes together in one place.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 6, section ii

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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

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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.
  • Reading paragraph 2 [a]: Repentance and related expressions are read in this works own context; they are not restricted to feeling sorry, and no uniform Godward formula is imposed. Use repentance for moral change while preserving the works own teaching about baptism, forgiveness, conduct and the angel of repentance; do not impose a different tradition on it.

Shepherd of Hermas 55:2

Hope of Renewal

The Harsh Shepherd and the Thorny Place · Shepherd of Hermas 55

Story guide: The shepherd interprets the sheep grazing in one place through corruption and hope of repentance.

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2“Those sheep you saw not skipping but grazing in one place—these are the ones who have handed themselves over to luxuries and deceptions, yet they have not blasphemed the Lord at all. These, then, have been corrupted from the truth; in them there is hope of repentance, by which they can live. Corruption, then, has hope of a certain renewal, but death has eternal destruction.”

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