Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.1.4 (9.4)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Visions · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Hermas finds an ivory couch prepared in the field.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:26

ἐγενόμην οὖν, ἀδελφοί, εἰς τὸν ἀγρὸν καὶ συνεψήφισα τὰς ὥρας καὶ ἦλθον εἰς τὸν τόπον, ὅπου διεταξάμην αὐτῇ ἐλθεῖν, καὶ βλέπω συμψέλιον κείμενον ἐλεφάντινον, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ συμψελίου ἔκειτο κερβικάριον λινοῦν καὶ ἐπάνω λέντιον ἐξηπλωμένον λινοῦν καρπάσιον.

English · Claude translation

So, brothers, I went to the field and counted the hours, and came to the place where I had arranged for her to come; and I saw an ivory couch set there, and on the couch lay a linen cushion, and over it a covering of fine linen spread out.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:26 · 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)

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Herm. Vis. 3.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/4/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/4/).

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