Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.11.4 (19.4)

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

Summary: She sat because the weak need support.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:56

Διατί οὖν ἐν καθέδρᾳ ἐκάθητο, ἤθελον γνῶναι, κύριε. Ὅτι πᾶς ἀσθενὴς εἰς καθέδραν καθέζεται διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν αὐτοῦ, ἵνα συνκρατηθῇ ἡ ἀσθένεια τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ. ἔχεις τὸν τύπον τῆς πρώτης ὁράσεως.

English · Claude translation

“Why, then, did she sit on a chair? I would like to know, sir.” “Because every sick person sits on a chair because of his weakness, so that the weakness of his body may be supported. You have the meaning of the first vision.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:56 · 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.

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Herm. Vis. 3.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/11/4/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/11/4/).

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