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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 9:5
Fear, Courage and Confession
The Secluded Field and the Place on the Left · Shepherd of Hermas 9
Story guide: Hermas’s startled face gives way to steadier resolve, then kneeling confession. Three images pace the changes within this paragraph.
Open this scene in the reader →5Seeing these things set there and no one in the place, I was astonished, and a tremor, as it were, seized me, and my hair stood on end; and a shudder, as it were, came upon me, since I was alone. Then, coming to myself and remembering the glory of God, and taking courage, I knelt and again confessed my sins to the Lord, as before.
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