Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.10.4 (18.4)

Summary: In the second she was younger in face, standing and more cheerful.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:52

τῇ δὲ ἑτέρᾳ ὁράσει τὴν μὲν ὄψιν νεωτέραν εἶχεν, τὴν δὲ σάρκα καὶ τὰς τρίχας πρεσβυτέρας, καὶ ἑστηκυῖά μοι ἐλάλει· ἱλαρωτέρα δὲ ἦν ἢ τὸ πρότερον.

In the second vision her face was younger, but her flesh and her hair were old, and she spoke to me standing; and she was more cheerful than before.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:52 · 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. 3.10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/10/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/10/4/).