Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.8.11 (16.11)

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

Summary: Hermas must speak these words to all the saints.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:48

μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας, νοῆσαί σε γὰρ δεῖ πρῶτον. ἐντέλλομαι δέ σοι πρῶτον, Ἑρμᾶ, τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα, ἅ σοι μέλλω λέγειν, λαλῆσαι αὐτὰ πάντα εἰς τὰ ὦτα τῶν ἁγίων, ἵνα ἀκούσαντες αὐτὰ καὶ ποιήσαντες καθαρισθῶσιν ἀπὸ τῶν πονηριῶν αὐτῶν καὶ σὺ δὲ μετʼ αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

after three days, for you must first understand them. And I command you first, Hermas, to speak all these words that I am about to say to you into the ears of the saints, so that when they hear them and do them they may be cleansed from their wickedness, and you with them.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:48 · 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. 3.8.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/8/11/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.8.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/8/11/).

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