Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.1.7 (22.7)

Summary: Hermas prays and remembers: do not doubt.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:62

καὶ ἠρξάμην κλαίειν καὶ ἐρωτᾶν τὸν κύριον, ἵνα με λυτρώσηται ἐξ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπανεμνήσθην τοῦ ῥήματος οὗ ἀκηκόειν· Μὴ διψυχήσεις, Ἑρμᾶ.

And I began to weep and to ask the Lord to rescue me from it; and I remembered the word I had heard: “Do not be double-minded, Hermas.”

Source: Lake, LCL 25:62 · 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)
Topics: Prayer

Herm. Vis. 4.1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 4.1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/7/).