Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.3.6 (24.6)

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

Summary: Tell the saints; the tribulation can be nothing if they are willing.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:66

σὺ οὖν μὴ διαλίπῃς λαλῶν εἰς τὰ ὦτα τῶν ἁγίων. ἔχετε καὶ τὸν τύπον τῆς θλίψεως τῆς ἐρχομένης μεγάλης. ἐὰν δὲ ὑμεῖς θελήσητε, οὐδὲν ἔσται. μνημονεύετε τὰ προγεγραμμένα.

English · Claude translation

So do not stop speaking into the ears of the saints. You have also the type of the great tribulation that is coming. But if you are willing, it will be nothing. Remember what was written before.”

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)

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Herm. Vis. 4.3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/3/6/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/3/6/).

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