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Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.2.1 (23.1)

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

Summary: A virgin dressed as a bride meets him.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:62

Μετὰ δὲ τὸ παρελθεῖν με τὸ θηρίον καὶ προελθεῖν ὡσεὶ πόδας λ, ἰδού, ὑπαντᾷ μοι παρθένος κεκοσμημένη ὡς ἐκ νυμφῶνος ἐκπορευομένη, ὅλη ἐν λευκοῖς καὶ ὑποδήμασιν λευκοῖς, κατακεκαλυμμένη ἕως τοῦ μετώπου, ἐν μίτρᾳ δὲ ἦν ἡ κατακάλυψις αὐτῆς· εἶχεν δὲ τὰς τρίχας αὐτῆς λευκάς.

English · Claude translation

After I had passed the beast and gone on about thirty feet, behold, a virgin met me, adorned as if coming out of the bridal chamber, all in white and with white sandals, veiled down to her forehead, and her veil was a headband; and her hair was white.

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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)
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Herm. Vis. 4.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/2/1/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/2/1/).

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