Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.5.2 (13.2)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Visions · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: The stones from the deep are the martyrs.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:38

Οἱ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ ἑλκόμενοι καὶ ἐπιτιθέμενοι εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν καὶ συμφωνοῦντες ταῖς ἁρμογαῖς αὐτῶν μετὰ τῶν ἑτέρων λίθων τῶν ἤδη ᾠκοδομημένων, τίνες εἰσίν; Οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ παθόντες ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ κυρίου.

English · Claude translation

“And those that are dragged from the deep and placed into the building and fit in their joints with the other stones already built in, who are they?” “These are those who suffered for the name of the Lord.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:38 · 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: Martyrdom

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Herm. Vis. 3.5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/5/2/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/5/2/).

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