Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.4.2 (12.2)

Summary: The stone-bearers are also angels; all will rejoice when the tower is complete.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:36

Οἱ δὲ ἕτεροι οἱ παραφέροντες τοὺς λίθους, τίνες εἰσίν; Καὶ αὐτοὶ ἅγιοι ἄγγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ· οὗτοι δὲ οἱ ἓξ ὑπερέχοντες αὐτούς εἰσιν· συντελεσθήσεται οὖν ἡ οἰκοδομὴ τοῦ πύργου, καὶ πάντες ὁμοῦ εὐφρανθήσονται κύκλῳ τοῦ πύργου καὶ δοξάσουσιν τὸν θεόν, ὅτι ἐτελέσθη ἡ οἰκοδομὴ τοῦ πύργου.

English · Claude translation

“And the others who are bringing the stones, who are they?” “They too are holy angels of God; but these six are superior to them. So the building of the tower will be completed, and all together will rejoice around the tower and glorify God that the building of the tower has been completed.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:36 · 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

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/4/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/4/2/).