HERMAS, who is spoken of in St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, was, according to several of the Ancients1, and many learned Interpreters2, the same as the celebrated Hermas, whose works are in our hands, and have been placed by some among the Canonical Scriptures.3 The books of Hermas, intitled, The Shepherd, were written at Rome, or in the neighbourhood of it, about the year of Jesus Christ 92, before Domitian’s Persecution.
Ado, Usuard, and the Roman Martyrology, set down the Festival of Hermas on the 9th of May; the Greeks observe it on the 8th of March, and again upon the 5th of October. They rank him among the Apostles, and seventy two Disciples. They add, that he was made Bishop of Philippi in Macedonia, or Philippopolis in Thrace.
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Origen. in Rom. xvi. Euseb. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 3. Hieron. de Viris illustrib. c. 10. ↩
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Est. Grot. Bez. Druf. alii. ↩
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Vide Irenæ. l. 4. c. 3. Clem. Alex. l. 1. Strom. & l. 2. plurib. locis. Tertull. l. de Oratione, c. 12. Origen. Homil. 8. in Numer. & alios plures citatos a Cotel. t. 1. p. 168. & seq. PP. primi sæculi. ↩