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Hermas meets his guide again in the same field.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 7

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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

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.
  • Reading paragraph 5 [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 59:2

The Request about His House

Hermas Asks about His Household’s Affliction · Shepherd of Hermas 59

Story guide: Hermas returns to the field, asks about his house’s affliction and questions the reply about testing.

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21. After a few days I saw him in the same field where I had also seen the shepherds, and he says to me, “What are you seeking?” “I am here, sir,” I say, “that you may command the shepherd, the punisher, to go out from my house, because he afflicts me greatly.” He says, “It is necessary for you to be afflicted; for thus the glorious angel has commanded concerning you, for he wants you to be tested.” “For what, sir,” I say, “have I done that was so evil, that I should be handed over to this angel?”

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