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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 6, section iii
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.
- Reading paragraph 3 [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 56:3
Discipline and Repentance
The Explanation of the Punishing Shepherd · Shepherd of Hermas 56
Story guide: The guide continues with the source’s teaching about discipline, repentance, service and relief.
Open this scene in the reader →3“When, then, they are afflicted with every affliction, then they are handed over to me for good discipline, and they are strengthened in the faith of the Lord; and the rest of the days of their life they serve the Lord with a pure heart. And if they repent, then the evil works that they did rise up into their heart; and then they glorify God, saying that he is a righteous judge and that each one suffered justly according to his deeds. Thereafter they serve the Lord with a pure heart, and they prosper in every work of theirs, receiving from the Lord whatever they ask for; and then they glorify the Lord because they were handed over to me, and they no longer suffer any of the evils.”
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