Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 5.2 (25.2)

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

Summary: The Shepherd has been sent to live with Hermas.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:68

καὶ εὐθὺς παρεκάθισέν μοι καὶ λέγει μοι· Ἀπεστάλην ὑπὸ τοῦ σεμνοτάτου ἀγγέλου, ἵνα μετὰ σοῦ οἰκήσω τὰς λοιπὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς σου.

English · Claude translation

And immediately he sat down beside me and said to me, “I have been sent by the most reverend angel to live with you for the rest of the days of your life.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:68 · 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. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/5/2/).

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Herm. Vis. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/5/2/).

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