Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.10.9 (18.9)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:54

ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ λέγω· Κύριε, τοῦτο μόνον αἰτοῦμαι, περὶ τῶν τριῶν μορφῶν τῆς πρεσβυτέρας ἵνα ἀποκάλυψις ὁλοτελὴς γένηται. ἀποκριθείς μοι λέγει· Μέχρι τίνος ἀσύνετοί ἐστε; ἀλλʼ αἱ διψυχίαι ὑμῶν ἀσυνέτους ὑμᾶς ποιοῦσιν καὶ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν τὴν καρδίαν ὑμῶν πρὸς τὸν κύριον.

English · Claude translation

I answered him, “Sir, I ask only this, about the three forms of the elderly woman, so that the revelation may be complete.” He answered me, “How long will you be without understanding? It is your double-mindedness that makes you without understanding, and not having your heart toward the Lord.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:54 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἀποκριθείς αὐτῷ λέγω → ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ λέγω.

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.10.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/10/9/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.10.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/10/9/).