Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.1.3 (22.3)

Summary: Hermas prays for the completion of the revelations.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:60

μόνος οὖν περιπατῶν ἀξιῶ τὸν κύριον, ἵνα τὰς ἀποκαλύψεις καὶ τὰ ὁράματα, ἅ μοι ἔδειξεν διὰ τῆς ἁγίας Ἐκκλησίας αὐτοῦ, τελειώσῃ, ἵνα με ἰσχυροποιήσῃ καὶ δῷ τὴν μετάνοιαν τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ τοῖς ἐσκανδαλισμένοις, ἵνα δοξασθῇ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ τὸ μέγα καὶ ἔνδοξον, ὅτι με ἄξιον ἡγήσατο τοῦ δεῖξαί μοι τὰ θαυμάσια αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

So, walking alone, I asked the Lord to complete the revelations and visions that he had shown me through his holy church, so that he might strengthen me and give repentance to his servants who had stumbled, so that his great and glorious name might be glorified, because he counted me worthy to show me his wonders.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:60 · 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

Prayer

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 4.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 4.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/3/).