Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.8.4 (16.4)

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

Summary: The second is Self-control, daughter of Faith.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:46

ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα, ἡ περιεζωσμένη καὶ ἀνδριζομένη, Ἐγκράτεια καλεῖται· αὕτη θυγάτηρ ἐστὶν τῆς Πίστεως. ὃς ἂν οὖν ἀκολουθήσῃ αὐτῇ, μακάριος γίνεται ἐν τῇ ζωῇ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι πάντων τῶν πονηρῶν ἔργων ἀφέξεται, πιστεύων ὅτι, ἐὰν ἀφέξηται πάσης ἐπιθυμίας πονηρᾶς, κληρονομήσει ζωὴν αἰώνιον.

English · Claude translation

And the next, who is girded and acts like a man, is called Self-control; she is the daughter of Faith. Whoever follows her becomes blessed in his life, because he will abstain from all evil deeds, believing that if he abstains from every evil desire he will inherit eternal life.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:46 · 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: Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): Ἑγκράτεια καλεῖται → Ἐγκράτεια καλεῖται.

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Herm. Vis. 3.8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/8/4/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/8/4/).

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