Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.7.2 (15.2)

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

Summary: Stones in the fire are those who have finally abandoned God.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:44

οἱ δὲ πίπτοντες εἰς τὸ πῦρ καὶ καιόμενοι, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ εἰς τέλος ἀποστάντες τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος, καὶ οὐκέτι αὐτοῖς ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ μετανοῆσαι διὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀσελγείας αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν πονηριῶν ὧν εἰργάσαντο.

English · Claude translation

And those falling into the fire and burning are those who have finally departed from the living God, and it no longer enters their heart to repent because of the desires of their licentiousness and the wicked deeds they have done.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:44 · 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. 3.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/7/2/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/7/2/).

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