Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.2.1 (10.1)

Summary: The martyrs sit on the right, but all receive the same gifts.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:28–30

Τί, φημί, ὑπήνεγκαν; Ἄκουε, φησίν· μάστιγας, φυλακάς, θλίψεις μεγάλας, σταυρούς, θηρία εἵνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματος· διὰ τοῦτο ἐκείνων ἐστὶν τὰ δεξιὰ μέρη τοῦ ἁγιάσματος καὶ ὃς ἐὰν πάθῃ διὰ τὸ ὄνομα· τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν τὰ ἀριστερὰ μέρη ἐστίν. ἀλλὰ ἀμφοτέρων, καὶ τῶν ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ τῶν ἀριστερῶν καθημένων, τὰ αὐτὰ δῶρα καὶ αἱ αὐταὶ ἐπαγγελίαι· μόνον ἐκεῖνοι ἐκ δεξιῶν κάθηνται καὶ ἔχουσιν δόξαν τινά.

English · Claude translation

“What,” I said, “did they endure?” “Listen,” she said: “scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts, for the sake of the name. For this reason the right side of holiness belongs to them, and to anyone who suffers for the name; the left side belongs to the rest. But both, those sitting on the right and on the left, have the same gifts and the same promises; only they sit on the right and have a certain glory.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:28–30 · 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

Martyrdom, Persecution

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/2/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/2/1/).