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Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.2.6 (23.6)

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

Summary: Doubters must believe; woe to those who disobey.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:64–66

πιστεύσατε τῷ κυρίῳ, οἱ δίψυχοι, ὅτι πάντα δύναται καὶ ἀποστρέφει τὴν ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ ἀφʼ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐξαποστέλλει μάστιγας ὑμῖν τοῖς διψύχοις. οὐαὶ τοῖς ἀκούσασιν τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα καὶ παρακούσασιν· αἱρετώτερον ἦν αὐτοῖς τὸ μὴ γεννηθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

Believe in the Lord, you double-minded, that he can do all things, and turns his anger away from you, and sends out scourges on you who are double-minded. Woe to those who have heard these words and disobeyed; it would have been better for them not to have been born.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:64–66 · 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. 4.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/2/6/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/2/6/).

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