Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 2.1.3 (5.3)

Summary: The woman gives Hermas a little book to copy.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:16–18

μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἐγερθῆναί με ἀπὸ τῆς προσευχῆς βλέπω ἀπέναντί μου τὴν πρεσβυτέραν, ἣν καὶ πέρυσιν ἑωράκειν, περιπατοῦσαν καὶ ἀναγινώσκουσαν βιβλαρίδιον, καὶ λέγει μοι· Δύνῃ ταῦτα τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς τοῦ θεοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι; λέγω αὐτῇ· Κυρία, τοσαῦτα μνημονεῦσαι οὐ δύναμαι· δὸς δέ μοι τὸ βιβλίδιον, ἵνα μεταγράψωμαι αὐτό. Λάβε, φησίν, καὶ ἀποδώσεις μοι.

English · Claude translation

After I rose from prayer I saw in front of me the elderly woman whom I had seen the year before, walking and reading a little book. And she said to me, “Can you announce these things to God's elect?” I said to her, “Lady, I cannot remember so much; but give me the little book, so that I may copy it.” “Take it,” she said, “and give it back to me.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:16–18 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 6–71 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 2.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/2/1/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 2.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/2/1/3/).