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An anonymous figure stands before diverging paths toward storm and pale light.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2, 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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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 7:4

A Warning and a Wilderness Citation

Release the Grudge and Continue in Simplicity · Shepherd of Hermas 7

Story guide: Visual essay: the fork illustrates a conditional warning, not Maximus’s actual choice. The empty wilderness accompanies the prophecy citation without supplying prophets or missing words.

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4And you shall say to Maximus: Behold, tribulation is coming, if it seems good to you to deny again. The Lord is near to those who turn to him, as it is written in Eldad and Modat, who prophesied to the people in the wilderness.

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