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Hermas looks thoughtfully toward the viewer in a close narrator portrait.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section i

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.

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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

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 9:1

The Vision Recounted

The Secluded Field and the Place on the Left · Shepherd of Hermas 9

Story guide: Hermas’s thoughtful portrait introduces his account. This narrator image supplies no new gathering or event.

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1The vision I saw, brothers, was like this.

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