Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.3.5 (24.5)

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

Summary: White is the age to come, home of God's elect.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:66

τὸ δὲ λευκὸν μέρος ὁ αἰὼν ὁ ἐπερχόμενός ἐστιν, ἐν ᾧ κατοικήσουσιν οἱ ἐκλεκτοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ· ὅτι ἄσπιλοι καὶ καθαροὶ ἔσονται οἱ ἐκλελεγμένοι ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον.

English · Claude translation

The white part is the age to come, in which God's elect will dwell; for those chosen by God for eternal life will be spotless and pure.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:66 · 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)
Topics: Eschatology

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Herm. Vis. 4.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/3/5/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/3/5/).

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