Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2 · Chapter 2
Vision 2.2.1
Greek
Vision 2.2.1 After fifteen days, during which I fasted and earnestly entreated the Lord, the meaning of the writing was revealed to me. These were the things written:
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.1 — Textual: The specified interval is fifteen days. Fasting and petition precede revealed understanding of the already copied writing. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.2
Greek
Vision 2.2.2 “Your offspring, Hermas, have rejected God, blasphemed against the Lord, and betrayed their parents with great wickedness. They have been called betrayers of parents, and their betrayal did not benefit them. Instead, they added acts of licentiousness and entanglements in wickedness to their sins, and so their lawless deeds reached their full measure.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.2 — Textual: “Offspring” is a collective followed by plural actions. Their betrayal of parents and subsequent misconduct are cumulative charges. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.3
Greek
Vision 2.2.3 “But make these words known to all your children and to your wife, who is to become a sister. For she too does not restrain her tongue, with which she does evil. But when she hears these words, she will restrain herself and receive mercy.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.3 — Textual: The wife's anticipated description as a sister is retained without adding an ascetic vow. The immediate rebuke concerns her speech. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.4
Greek
Vision 2.2.4 “After you have made known to them these words which the Master commanded me to reveal to you, all the sins they previously committed will then be forgiven them, and also all the saints who have sinned up to this day, if they repent with their whole heart and remove double-mindedness from their heart.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.4 — Textual: Forgiveness is connected with communication of the message, wholehearted repentance and removal of double-mindedness; the condition covers the broader saints as well. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.5
Greek
Vision 2.2.5 “For the Master has sworn by His glory concerning His chosen ones: if sin is still committed after this appointed day, they will have no salvation. For repentance for the righteous has an end; the days of repentance have been fulfilled for all the saints. But for the nations there is repentance until the last day.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.5 — Textual: The appointed limit for the righteous is distinguished from repentance available to the nations until the last day; the restriction is not harmonized away. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.6
Greek
Vision 2.2.6 “Therefore you shall tell the leaders of the Church to set their ways straight in righteousness, so that they may receive the promises in full, with great glory.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.6 — Textual: The leaders themselves must straighten their conduct. Their office does not exempt them from the demand for righteousness. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.7
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Vision 2.2.7 “So persevere, you who practice righteousness, and do not become double-minded, so that your passage may be with the holy angels. Blessed are you who endure the great affliction that is coming, and who will not deny their life.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.7 — Textual: “Passage” retains the movement imagery of parodos. Endurance of coming affliction is paired with refusal to deny one's life. Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.
Vision 2.2.8
Greek
Vision 2.2.8 “For the Lord has sworn by His Son that those who deny their Christ are to be disowned from their life—those who are now about to deny Him in the coming days. But toward those who denied Him previously He has become gracious because of His great compassion.
Textual & reception notes
Vision 2.2.8 — Textual: The source contrasts impending denial with earlier denial already met by mercy; “Christ” follows Lake's selected wording rather than the alternative “Lord.” Reception: No section-specific reception verified in the sources checked.