Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 2.3.4 (7.4)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:22–24

ἐρεῖς δὲ Μαξίμῳ· Ἰδού, θλῖψις ἔρχεται· ἐάν σοι φανῇ, πάλιν ἄρνησαι. Ἐγγὺς κύριος τοῖς ἐπιστρεφομένοις, ὡς γέγραπται ἐν τῷ Ἐλδὰδ καὶ Μωδάτ, τοῖς προφητεύσασιν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῷ λαῷ.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:22–24 · 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)

Scripture

Num 11:26 · allusion, medium confidence
Ps 34:18 (33:19 LXX) · echo, low confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Eld. Mod. (Eldad and Modad) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

“Maximus”: evidently a believer who had denied the faith in an earlier persecution; the words are ironic.
Eldad and Modat (Medad) prophesied in the camp (Num 11:26–29). The book cited here, attributed to them, is lost; this is its only surviving quotation.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): Ἰδοῦ, θλῖψις → Ἰδού, θλῖψις.

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 2.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/2/3/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 2.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/2/3/4/).