Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.1.8 (9.8)

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

Summary: Hermas defers to the presbyters, but she tells him to sit.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:28

καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀναχωρῆσαι τοὺς νεανίσκους καὶ μόνων ἡμῶν γεγονότων λέγει μοι· Κάθισον ὧδε. λέγω αὐτῇ· Κυρία, ἄφες τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους πρῶτον καθίσαι. Ὅ σοι λέγω, φησίν, κάθισον.

English · Claude translation

And after the young men had gone away and we were alone, she said to me, “Sit here.” I said to her, “Lady, let the presbyters sit first.” “Do what I tell you,” she said; “sit.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:28 · 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

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Herm. Vis. 3.1.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/8/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.1.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/1/8/).

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