Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.9.1 (17.1)

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

Summary: The church speaks as a mother: you have been nurtured in righteousness but will not stop sinning.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:48–50

Ἀκούσατέ μου, τέκνα· ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς ἐξέθρεψα ἐν πολλῇ ἁπλότητι καὶ ἀκακίᾳ καὶ σεμνότητι διὰ τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ κυρίου τοῦ ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς στάξαντος τὴν δικαιοσύνην, ἵνα δικαιωθῆτε καὶ ἁγιασθῆτε ἀπὸ πάσης πονηρίας καὶ ἀπὸ πάσης σκολιότητος· ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐ θέλετε παῆναι ἀπὸ τῆς πονηρίας ὑμῶν.

English · Claude translation

Listen to me, children: I brought you up in much simplicity and innocence and reverence through the mercy of the Lord, who has dropped righteousness upon you, so that you may be justified and sanctified from all wickedness and from all crookedness. But you do not wish to stop your wickedness.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:48–50 · 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. 3.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/9/1/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/9/1/).

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