Wholehearted Reorientation

Understanding the Writing: Reorientation and Perseverance · Shepherd of Hermas 6

Story guide: Visual essay: divided paths illustrate the tension between wholehearted reorientation and double-mindedness. This terrain is a metaphor, not a narrated journey.

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4After you have made known to them these words which the Master commanded me to be revealed to you, then all their sins that they formerly committed are forgiven them, and also to all the holy ones who have sinned up to this day, if they reorient with all their heart and remove from their heart their double‑mindedness.

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