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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 63:5
The Unfinished Ending
The Rods Are Examined Again · Shepherd of Hermas 63
Story guide: Some rods are green and others dry and eaten; the supplied text ends while the shepherd is separating the groups.
Open this scene in the reader →55. Then those who had the dry but not cut [rods] handed them in. And some of them handed in their rods green, but others dry and cut, as if worm-eaten. So those who had handed in green [rods] he ordered to stand apart, but those with dry—
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