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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2, 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 8:2
Words Still to Be Added
The Church Revealed and the Writing Entrusted · Shepherd of Hermas 8
Story guide: Reported literary vision: silver mist marks the Church woman’s household appearance. Her question and reply receive separate views; no exchange of books or elders’ gathering is supplied.
Open this scene in the reader →22. Afterward I saw a vision in my house. The old woman came and asked me whether I had already given the book to the elders. I denied having given it. “You have done well,” she says; “for I have words to add. When, therefore, I complete all the words, through you they will be made known to all the elect.
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