Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.7.5 (15.5)

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

Summary: The rejected stones can repent, but will not fit into this tower.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:44

ἀναιδευσάμενος ἔτι αὐτὴν ἐπηρώτησα, εἰ ἄρα πάντες οἱ λίθοι οὗτοι οἱ ἀποβεβλημένοι καὶ μὴ ἁρμόζοντες εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ πύργου, εἰ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς μετάνοια καὶ ἔχουσιν τόπον εἰς τὸν πύργον τοῦτον. Ἔχουσιν, φησίν, μετάνοιαν, ἀλλὰ εἰς τοῦτον τὸν πύργον οὐ δύνανται ἁρμόσαι·

English · Claude translation

Being still shameless, I asked her whether all these stones that had been rejected and did not fit into the building of the tower have repentance and a place in this tower. “They have repentance,” she said, “but they cannot fit into this tower.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:44 · 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)

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Herm. Vis. 3.7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/7/5/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/7/5/).

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