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An intact green rod accompanies the explanation about keeping the commandments.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 8, section iii

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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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  • The available edition begins mid-dialogue and ends mid-sentence in Similitude 8.iv; absent passages are not supplied.
  • Reading paragraph 6 [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 62:10

Green as They Received

The Meaning of the Willow and the Rods · Shepherd of Hermas 62

Story guide: The shepherd explains the intact green rods and says that the rest follows examination.

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10“And those who handed in green rods just as they received them are dignified and righteous and have walked with a very pure heart, and have guarded the commandments of the Lord. The rest you will learn when I examine these rods that have been planted and watered.”

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