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In ancient Greece, posts or heaps of stones, set up to mark boundaries or distances along roads. The hermae were associated with the cult of Hermes, the messenger of the gods.

In about the 5th century BC the hermae became regularly shaped pillars which tapered downwards and had a head (usually of Hermes) at the top and a phallus halfway up. They were placed at street corners and at the doors of houses.

Hermae were held in great respect, if not actually worshipped. The hermae in Athens were mutilated on the eve of the Sicilian expedition 415 BC, causing great alarm and indignation in the city.
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This information can be supplemented by what we know of oral traditions from such early Christian writings as The Didache (Milavec) and The Shepherd of Hermas (Osiek).
Performance criticism: an emerging methodology in Second Testament ... by Rhoads, David / Biblical Theology Bulletin
The Shepherd of Hermas affirmed that "The world was created for the sake of the Church," and Clement of Alexandria explained, "Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world,' so his intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.
Augustine's Confessions and Voegelin's philosophy by McMahon, Robert / Modern Age
Maier, whose dissertation was published as The Social Setting of the Ministry as Reflected in the Writings of Hermas, Clement and Ignatius (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991), tackles the book of Revelation with equal interest but with a more focused concern for today's Christian.
Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation after Christendom by Brink, Laurie / Currents in Theology and Mission
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