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Two unnamed adults share useful provisions with quiet pleasure.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 6, section v

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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 7 [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 58:7

Pleasure in Doing Good

Harmful Pleasures and Doing Good · Shepherd of Hermas 58

Story guide: The shepherd contrasts pleasure in doing good with harmful indulgences and their conditional warning.

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7“But there are also indulgences that save people; for many, by doing good things, indulge themselves, being carried along by their own pleasure. This indulgence, therefore, is beneficial for the servants of God, and it secures life for such a person; but the harmful indulgences previously mentioned procure torments and punishments for them; and if they persist and do not repent, they procure death for themselves.”

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