Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.1.5 (9.5)

Summary: Afraid, Hermas kneels and confesses his sins.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:26

ἰδὼν ταῦτα κείμενα καὶ μηδένα ὄντα ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἔκθαμβος ἐγενόμην, καὶ ὡσεὶ τρόμος με ἔλαβεν καὶ αἱ τρίχες μου ὀρθαί· καὶ ὡσεὶ φρίκη μοι προσῆλθεν μόνου μου ὄντος. ἐν ἐμαυτῷ οὖν γενόμενος καὶ μνησθεὶς τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ λαβὼν θάρσος, θεὶς τὰ γόνατα ἐξωμολογούμην τῷ κυρίῳ πάλιν τὰς ἁμαρτίας μου ὡς καὶ πρότερον.

English · Claude translation

When I saw these things lying there and no one in the place, I was amazed, and a kind of trembling seized me and my hair stood on end; and a kind of shuddering came over me, since I was alone. But when I came to myself and remembered the glory of God and took courage, I knelt and again confessed my sins to the Lord as before.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:26 · 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

Prayer

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/5/).