Hermas
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Early Christian to whom the angel of repentance speaks in the Shepherd of Hermas.
And the Shepherd too, the angel of repentance, says to Hermas concerning the false prophet:
Divinely, then, the power that speaks the visions to Hermas by revelation says that both the visions and the revelations are for the sake of the double-minded, who reason in their hearts whether these things are or are not.
For the power that appeared to Hermas in the vision says:
De Oratione
Hermas, author of the Shepherd, whose narrative detail is misused as a model of prayer practice.
For what if that Hermas, whose writing is generally entitled the Shepherd, when his prayer was finished, had not sat down upon the bed, but had done something else — should we vindicate that too for observance?