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Hermas walks alone toward a secluded grassy clearing.
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Historical Library · Apostolic Fathers
Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section i

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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 9:4

The Ivory Couch

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

Story guide: Hermas approaches the secluded clearing. A separate discovery view shows the empty ivory couch, linen pillow and fine-linen towel.

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4So I went, brothers, into the field, and I counted the hours, and I came to the place where I had directed her to come; and I see an ivory couch set there, and upon the couch there lay a linen pillow, and on top a spread-out towel of fine linen.

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