Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 2, Chapter 4

She Is the Church, and for Her the World Was Made

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Vision 2.4.1Brothers and sisters, while I slept a very handsome young man revealed something to me, saying, “Who do you think the elderly woman is, from whom you received the little book?” I said, “The Sibyl.” “You are mistaken,” he said. “She is not.” “Who, then, is she?” I said. “The Church,” he said. I said to him, “Why, then, is she elderly?” “Because,” he said, “she was created first of all. That is why she is elderly, and for her sake the world was formed.”

Vision 2.4.2Afterward I saw a vision in my house. The elderly woman came and asked me whether I had already given the book to the elders. I said that I had not given it. “You have done well,” she said, “for I have words to add. When I have completed all the words, they will be made known through you to all the chosen ones.

Vision 2.4.3“Therefore you shall write two little books and send one to Clement and one to Grapte. Clement will send his to the cities outside, for this has been entrusted to him; Grapte will admonish the widows and the orphans. But you shall read it in this city with the elders who preside over the Church.”

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