Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.1.2 (9.2)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:24–26

νηστεύσας πολλάκις καὶ δεηθεὶς τοῦ κυρίου, ἵνα μοι φανερώσῃ τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν, ἥν μοι ἐπηγγείλατο δεῖξαι διὰ τῆς πρεσβυτέρας ἐκείνης, αὐτῇ τῇ νυκτί μοι ὦπται ἡ πρεσβυτέρα καὶ εἶπέν μοι· Ἐπεὶ οὕτως ἐνδεὴς εἶ καὶ σπουδαῖος εἰς τὸ γνῶναι πάντα, ἐλθὲ εἰς τὸν ἀγρόν, ὅπου χονδρίζεις, καὶ περὶ ὥραν πέμπτην ἐμφανισθήσομαί σοι καὶ δείξω σοι, ἃ δεῖ σε ἰδεῖν.

English · Claude translation

After fasting often and asking the Lord to show me the revelation that he had promised to show me through that elderly woman, that very night the elderly woman appeared to me and said, “Since you are so needy and eager to know everything, come into the field where you farm, and at about the fifth hour I will appear to you and show you what you must see.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:24–26 · 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)

Topics

Fasting

Notes

Translation notes

“Where you farm” (ὅπου χονδρίζεις): literally “where you grow grain”; the meaning is not certain.

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/2/).