Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.1.9 (22.9)

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

Summary: The beast lies still and lets him pass.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:62

ἔρχομαι ἐγγὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ τηλικοῦτο κῆτος ἐκτείνει ἑαυτὸ χαμαὶ καὶ οὐδὲν εἰ μὴ τὴν γλῶσσαν προέβαλλεν καὶ ὅλως οὐκ ἐκινήθη, μέχρις ὅτε παρῆλθον αὐτό·

English · Claude translation

I came near it, and the huge sea monster stretched itself out on the ground and put out nothing but its tongue, and did not move at all until I had passed by it.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:62 · 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. 4.1.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/9/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.1.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/1/9/).

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