Graphic Bible · Scene 3 of 8
Shepherd of Hermas 6:3
Hear and Restrain the Tongue
Understanding the Writing: Reorientation and Perseverance · Shepherd of Hermas 6
Story guide: Visual essay: an anonymous woman’s attentive silence interprets listening and restrained speech. She is not a claimed portrait of Hermas’s wife.
Open this scene in the reader →3But make these words known to all your children and to your wife, who is to be your sister; for she too does not refrain from her tongue, by which she acts wickedly. But when she hears these words, she will refrain, and she will obtain mercy.
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