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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.
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 9:2
The Promised Meeting
The Secluded Field and the Place on the Left · Shepherd of Hermas 9
Story guide: Prayer prepares the account’s nighttime meeting. The woman’s appearance in silver mist follows the promised revelation.
Open this scene in the reader →2After fasting many times and pleading with the Lord to make known to me the revelation he had promised to show me through that aged woman, on that very night the aged woman appeared to me and said: “Since you are so needy and so eager to know everything, come to the field where you stay, and about the fifth hour I will appear to you and show you what you must see.”
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