Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 5.3 (25.3)

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

Summary: He reveals he is the shepherd to whom Hermas was entrusted.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:68

ἔδοξα ἐγώ, ὅτι πάρεστιν ἐκπειράζων με, καὶ λέγω αὐτῷ· Σὺ γὰρ τίς εἶ; ἐγὼ γάρ, φημί, γινώσκω, ᾧ παρεδόθην. λέγει μοι· Οὐκ ἐπιγινώσκεις με; Οὔ, φημί. Ἐγώ, φησίν, εἰμὶ ὁ ποιμήν, ᾧ παρεδόθης.

English · Claude translation

I thought that he had come to tempt me, and I said to him, “Who are you? For I know,” I said, “to whom I have been handed over.” He said to me, “Do you not recognize me?” “No,” I said. “I am,” he said, “the shepherd to whom you have been handed over.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:68 · 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. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/5/3/).

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Herm. Vis. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/5/3/).

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