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Date "Hermas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
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| Antiquities | Hermas (Hermas). The author of a famous treatise entitled Poimên, or “The Shepherd,” once of great repute, so that it was read in the churches. The work is divided into three books--I. Visiones; II. Mandata; III. Similitudines. Its object is to rebuke the worldliness of professed Christians and to exhort sinners to repentance. By some, Hermas has been identified with the Hermas of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, xvi. 14; but the present belief places him in the second century. It was preserved only in a Latin translation entitled Pastor until 1847, when D'Abbadie discovered an Ethiopic version. Since then a great part of the Greek text has been recovered from various sources, and in 1890 a codex containing the whole. The earlier Greek text, compiled from the Codex Sinaiticus and an Athos MS., has been edited by Hilgenfeld (1888), who also edited the Latin version (1877). There is a good edition of the Greek and Latin texts together by Gebhardt and Harnack (1877). See Zahn, Der Hirt des Hermas (1868); Salmon, Introduction to the New Testament (4th ed. 1889); and the Johns Hopkins University Circular, iii. 75 and iv. 23. (references) | ||
| Bible | Hermas Mercury, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom. 16: 14). Some suppose him to have been the author of the celebrated religious romance called The Shepherd, but it is very probable that that work is the production of a later generation. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
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| The Shepherd of Hermas | The Shepherd of Hermas (sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a Christian work of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and occasionally considered canonical by some of the early Church fathers. (references) | ||
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| The Shepherd of Hermas | 27 | Hermas (freedman) | 5 | |
| Hermas (freedman) | 5 | The Shepherd of Hermas | 27 | |
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