Hermas (2.1.1-2.2.1)

While I was going to Cumae, at about the[*] same time as the year before, as I walked along I remembered the vision of the previous year, and the spirit again seized me and took me away to the same place, where I had been the previous year.

So when I came to the place, I knelt down and began to pray to the Lord and to glorify his name, because he had thought me worthy, and had made known to me my former sins.

But after I rose from prayer I saw before me the ancient lady,[*] whom I had seen the year before, walking and reading out from a little book. And she said to

I took it and went away to a certain place in the country, and copied it all, letter by letter, for I could not distinguish the syllables.[*] So when I had finished the letters of the little book it was suddenly taken out of my hand; but I did not see by whom.

But after fifteen days, when I had fasted and[*] prayed greatly to the Lord, the knowledge of the writing was revealed to me. And these things were written: