Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.1.7 (9.7)

Summary: She sends the young men to build.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:28

καὶ ἐξεγείρει με τῆς χειρὸς καὶ ἄγει με πρὸς τὸ συμψέλιον καὶ λέγει τοῖς νεανίσκοις· Ὑπάγετε καὶ οἰκοδομεῖτε.

And she raised me by the hand and led me to the couch and said to the young men, “Go and build.”

Source: Lake, LCL 25:28 · 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)

Herm. Vis. 3.1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/7/).