Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.13.1 (21.1)

Summary: The meaning of the third vision.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:58

Τῇ δὲ τρίτῃ ὁράσει εἶδες αὐτὴν νεωτέραν καὶ καλὴν καὶ ἱλαρὰν καὶ καλὴν τὴν μορφὴν αὐτῆς·

In the third vision you saw her younger and beautiful and cheerful, and her form beautiful.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:58 · 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. 3.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/13/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/13/1/).