1) Masculine given name
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[freedman] Hermas was a well-to-do freedman who lived in Ancient Rome. He was a brother of Pius, Bishop of Rome about the middle of the 2nd century, and Hermas was an earnest Christian. Some later writers confuse him with the Hermas mentioned in Romans xvi, 14. Hermas the freedman was the character and, by some estimations, the author of th...
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(from the article `Shepherd of Hermas`) a 2nd-century Christian writing that is one of the works representing the Apostolic Fathers, Greek Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd ...
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Hermas was one of the so-called apostolic fathers, generally supposed to be the person mentioned by that name in Romans XVI 14, though others maintain that he lived much later, he is known as the author of a work entitled the Shepherd, circulated at Rome early in the second century, and for which a place in the canon was even claimed. Only a few fr...
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