Shepherd of Hermas
Hermas
Book 3 · Similitude 3
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 Third.
As in Winter Green Trees Cannot Be Distinguished from Withered, So in This World Neither Can the Just from the Unjust.
He showed me many trees having no leaves,