Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.9.6 (17.6)

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

Summary: The groans of the poor will rise to God against the proud rich.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:50

βλέπετε οὖν ὑμεῖς οἱ γαυριώμενοι ἐν τῷ πλούτῳ ὑμῶν, μήποτε στενάξουσιν οἱ ὑστερούμενοι καὶ ὁ στεναγμὸς αὐτῶν ἀναβήσεται πρὸς τὸν κύριον καὶ ἐκκλεισθήσεσθε μετὰ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ὑμῶν ἔξω τῆς θύρας τοῦ πύργου.

English · Claude translation

Look out, then, you who pride yourselves in your wealth, lest those in need groan, and their groaning go up to the Lord, and you with your goods be shut outside the door of the tower.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:50 · 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)

Scripture

Jas 5:4 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

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Herm. Vis. 3.9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/9/6/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/9/6/).

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