Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.8.5 (16.5)

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

Summary: The others are Simplicity, Knowledge, Innocence, Reverence, and Love.

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:46

Αἱ δὲ ἕτεραι, κυρία, τίνες εἰσίν; Θυγατέρες ἀλλήλων εἰσίν· καλοῦνται δὲ ἡ μὲν Ἁπλότης, ἡ δὲ Ἐπιστήμη, ἡ δὲ Ἀκακία, ἡ δὲ Σεμνότης, ἡ δὲ Ἀγάπη. ὅταν οὖν τὰ ἔργα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν πάντα ποιήσῃς, δύνασαι ζῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

“And the others, lady, who are they?” “They are daughters of one another; they are called Simplicity, Knowledge, Innocence, Reverence, and Love. When, then, you do all the works of their mother, you can live.”

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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text): εἰσίν καλοῦνται → εἰσίν· καλοῦνται.

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/8/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/8/5/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage