Dict: smith - HERMAS

smith:

HERMAS - H>@ - (Mercury), the name of a Christian resident at Rome to whom St. Paul sends greetings in his Epistle to the Romans. kjv@Romans:16:14) (A.D. 55.) Irenaeus, Tertullian and Origen agree in attributing to him the work called The shepherd . It was never received into the canon, but yet was generally cited with respect only second to that which was paid to the authoritative books of the New Testament.