Shepherd of Hermas
Hermas
Book 3 · Similitude 1
About this work
A visionary Christian work arranged as visions, commandments, and parables, calling baptized believers to repentance, moral seriousness, communal discipline, and hope in God’s mercy within the church.
- Author
- Hermas
- Traditional attribution
- Hermas of Rome, traditionally identified as the brother of Pope Pius I
- Date
- c. AD 100–160
- Origin
- Rome
- Genre
- Apocalypse
The author identifies himself as Hermas; the work’s composition may have developed in stages.
Similitude First.
As in This World We Have No Abiding City, We Ought to Seek One to Come.
He says to me, “You know that