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Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 1.4.3 (4.3)

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

Summary: She is led away and tells Hermas to be brave.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:16

λαλούσης αὐτῆς μετʼ ἐμοῦ δύο τινὲς ἄνδρες ἐφάνησαν καὶ ἦραν αὐτὴν τῶν ἀγκώνων καὶ ἀπῆλθαν, ὅπου ἡ καθέδρα, πρὸς τὴν ἀνατολήν. ἱλαρὰ δὲ ἀπῆλθεν καὶ ὑπάγουσα λέγει μοι· Ἀνδρίζου, Ἑρμᾶ.

English · Claude translation

While she was speaking with me, two men appeared and took her by the arms and went away toward the east, where the chair had gone. She went away cheerfully, and as she went she said to me, “Be a man, Hermas.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:16 · 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. 1.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/1/4/3/).

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Herm. Vis. 1.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/1/4/3/).

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