Vision Five
S H E P H E R D OF HERMAS
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25 (V)
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λενκόν, και πήραν έχων έπϊ τον ώρον καϊ ράβδον εις τήν χείρα, και ήσπάσατό ρε, κάγώ άντησπασάρην αυτόν.
2. καϊ ευθύς παρεκάθισέν ροι καϊ λέγει ροιάπεστάλην άπο τού σεμνοτάτον άγγέλον, ΐνα μετά σού οικήσω τάς λοιπάς ημέρας τής ζωής σον. 3. εδοζα έγώ οτι πάρεστιν έκπειράζων ρε, καϊ λέγω αύτώσύ γάρ τίς εί; έγώ γάρ, φηρί, γινώσκω ω παρεδόθην. λέγει ροιούκ έπιγινώσκεις ρε; ού, φηρί. έγώ, φησίν, είρί ό ποιρήν ω παρεδόθης.
4. έτι λαλούντος αυτού ήλλοιώθη ή ιδέα αυτού, και έπέγνων αυτόν, ότι εκείνος ήν, ω παρεδόθην, καϊ ευθύς σννεχύθην, καϊ φόβος ρε ελαβεν, καϊ Ολος σννεκόπην άπο τής λύπης, ότι ούτως αύτώ άπεκρίθην πονηρώς καϊ άφρόνως.
VISIONS 25 (V) ears of the saints. You now have the foreshadowing of the great affliction that is coming. But if you wish, it will come to nothing. Remember the things written before." 7. When she said these things she departed; but I did not see where she went. For there was a noise, and I turned around out of fear, thinking that the beast was coming.
Vision Five 25 (V) After I prayed in my house, sitting on my bed, an eminent looking man came to me, dressed in shepherd s clothing— wrapped with a white goat skin around his waist, with a bag on his shoulder and a staff in his hand. He greeted me, and I greeted him in return. 2. He immediately sat next to me and said, "I have been sent from the most reverend an gel to live with you for the rest of your life." 3. I thought he had come to put me to the test, and I said to him, "Who are you? For I know the one to whom I have been en trusted." He said to me, "Do you not recognize me?" "No,"
I replied. He said, "I am the shepherd to whom you have been entrusted." 4. While he was speaking his appearance changed, and I recognized him, since he was in fact the one to whom I had been entrusted. And I was suddenly thrown into confusion, seized with fear, and entirely broken up by grief, because I had given him such a wicked and foolish in ψόφος A Ll Ε: νέφος S L
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