Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.1.6 (9.6)

Summary: She tells him to pray also for righteousness.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:26–28

ἡ δὲ ἦλθεν μετὰ νεανίσκων ἕξ, οὓς καὶ πρότερον ἑωράκειν, καὶ ἐστάθη μοι καὶ κατηκροᾶτο προσευχομένου καὶ ἐξομολογουμένου τῷ κυρίῳ τὰς ἁμαρτίας μου. καὶ ἁψαμένη μου λέγει· Ἑρμᾶ, παῦσαι περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν σου πάντα ἐρωτῶν· ἐρώτα καὶ περὶ δικαιοσύνης, ἵνα λάβῃς μέρος τι ἐξ αὐτῆς εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου.

English · Claude translation

And she came with six young men, whom I had seen before, and stood beside me and listened to me as I prayed and confessed my sins to the Lord. And she touched me and said, “Hermas, stop asking only about your sins; ask also about righteousness, so that you may take some part of it to your household.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:26–28 · 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

Prayer

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/6/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/6/).