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Shepherd of Hermas — Similitude 8, section iv
The available POB edition is a partial translation, not a summary or the complete ancient work. Popular, not Scripture. Artwork interprets literary visions and teaching; it does not establish their portrayals as historical events.
Source and translation notes
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.
Shepherd of Hermas 63:1
Returning to the Planting Place
The Rods Are Examined Again · Shepherd of Hermas 63
Story guide: They return after a few days; the shepherd sits, and Hermas girds himself in raw linen to serve.
Open this scene in the reader →1And after a few days we came to the place, and the Shepherd sat down in the place of the angel, and I stood beside him. And he says to me, “Gird yourself with a raw-linen garment, and serve me.” So I girded myself with a clean raw-linen garment made from sackcloth.
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