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Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.1.6 (22.6)

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

Summary: A monstrous beast appears, with fiery locusts from its mouth.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:60–62

γινομένου μείζονος καὶ μείζονος κονιορτοῦ ὑπενόησα εἶναί τι θεῖον· μικρὸν ἐξέλαμψεν ὁ ἥλιος καὶ ἰδού, βλέπω θηρίον μέγιστον ὡσεὶ κῆτός τι, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἀκρίδες πύριναι ἐξεπορεύοντο· ἦν δὲ τὸ θηρίον τῷ μήκει ὡσεὶ ποδῶν ρ, τὴν δὲ κεφαλὴν εἶχεν ὡσεὶ κεράμου.

English · Claude translation

As the cloud of dust grew greater and greater, I suspected that it was something divine. The sun shone out a little, and behold, I saw a huge beast like a sea monster, and fiery locusts were coming out of its mouth. The beast was about a hundred feet long, and its head was like a clay jar.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:60–62 · 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. 4.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/6/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/6/).

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