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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2, section iii
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 7:2
Continue in Simplicity
Release the Grudge and Continue in Simplicity · Shepherd of Hermas 7
Story guide: Visual essay: an anonymous unburdened traveler on a clear path interprets continuing in innocence and simplicity; no literal journey or historical portrait is claimed.
Open this scene in the reader →2But what saves you is that you did not depart from the living God, and your simplicity and great self-control. These have saved you, if you continue in them, and they save all who do such things and who walk in innocence and simplicity. These prevail over all wickedness and remain unto eternal life.
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