Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4.3.2 (24.2)

Summary: Black is this world.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:66

Ἄκουε, φησίν· τὸ μὲν μέλαν οὗτος ὁ κόσμος ἐστίν, ἐν ᾧ κατοικεῖτε·

“Hear,” she said. “The black is this world in which you live.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:66 · 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.

Herm. Vis. 4.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/3/2/).

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Herm. Vis. 4.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/4/3/2/).