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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 8:3
The Writing Entrusted
The Church Revealed and the Writing Entrusted · Shepherd of Hermas 8
Story guide: Instruction essays: paired booklets, outward cities, anonymous recipients and reading with elders visualize the future tasks. These scenes claim neither completed obedience nor historical portraits of Clement and Grapte.
Open this scene in the reader →33. “So you will write two little booklets, and you will send one to Clement and one to Grapte. Then Clement will send it to the cities outside, for this has been entrusted to him; but Grapte will admonish the widows and the orphans. But you will read it aloud in this city with the elders who preside over the church.”
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