Visions, commandments and parables given to a freed slave in Rome by an angel dressed as a shepherd, written in the first half of the second century. Some early Christians counted it as scripture: Irenaeus quotes it as such, and the Codex Sinaiticus bound it in after the New Testament.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Shepherd that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Ante-Nicene Fathers, 1885. Source: CCEL.
The text here is the translation in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, volume 2, 1885, public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. The editor’s notes are not printed.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.