Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 2.4.3 (8.3)

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

Summary: Copies go to Clement for other cities and to Grapte for widows and orphans.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:24

γράψεις οὖν δύο βιβλαρίδια καὶ πέμψεις ἓν Κλήμεντι καὶ ἓν Γραπτῇ. πέμψει οὖν Κλήμης εἰς τὰς ἔξω πόλεις, ἐκείνῳ γὰρ ἐπιτέτραπται· Γραπτὴ δὲ νουθετήσει τὰς χήρας καὶ τοὺς ὀρφανούς. σὺ δὲ ἀναγνώσῃ εἰς ταύτην τὴν πόλιν μετὰ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τῶν προϊσταμένων τῆς ἐκκλησίας.

English · Claude translation

So you shall write two little books, and send one to Clement and one to Grapte. Clement will send it to the cities abroad, for that is his task; and Grapte will admonish the widows and the orphans. But you shall read it in this city with the presbyters who preside over the church.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:24 · 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
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.
Topics: Church office

Notes

Translation notes

“Clement”: probably the Clement associated with 1 Clement, who wrote on behalf of the Roman church to other churches.
“Grapte”: evidently a woman with a ministry to widows and orphans.
“The presbyters who preside over the church”: in Rome at this time the church seems to have been led by a group of presbyters.

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Herm. Vis. 2.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/2/4/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 2.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/2/4/3/).

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