Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.10.7 (18.7)

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

Summary: A young man warns him not to harm his body by excessive fasting.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:54

ἐνήστευσα οὖν μίαν ἡμέραν, καὶ αὐτῇ τῇ νυκτί μοι ὤφθη νεανίσκος καὶ λέγει μοι· Τί σὺ ὑπὸ χεῖρα αἰτεῖς ἀποκαλύψεις ἐν δεήσει; βλέπε, μήποτε πολλὰ αἰτούμενος βλάψῃς σου τὴν σάρκα.

English · Claude translation

So I fasted one day, and that very night a young man appeared to me and said, “Why do you keep asking for revelations in prayer? See that by asking many things you do not harm your flesh.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:54 · 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: Fasting

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Herm. Vis. 3.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/10/7/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/10/7/).

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