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A very tall angel cuts branches from a willow while people shelter beneath it.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 8, section i

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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 1 [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 60:2

The Angel beside the Willow

The Willow and the Returned Rods · Shepherd of Hermas 60

Story guide: A very tall angel cuts willow branches and gives short rods to the people beneath the tree.

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2And an angel of the Lord—exceedingly glorious and very tall—was standing beside the willow, holding a great sickle, and he was cutting off branches from the willow and handing them to the people who were being sheltered by the willow; and he kept giving them little rods, about a cubit long.

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