Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.3.4 (113.4)

Summary: The angel trusts Hermas.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:302

λέγει τῷ ποιμένι· Οἶδα, ὅτι ὁ δοῦλος τοῦ θεοῦ θέλει ζῆν καὶ τηρήσει τὰς ἐντολὰς ταύτας καὶ τὰς παρθένους ἐν καθαρότητι καταστήσει.

He said to the shepherd, “I know that the servant of God wishes to live and will keep these commandments and will settle the virgins in purity.”

Source: Lake, LCL 25:302 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 138–305 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913), and from the ancient Latin version where Lake prints it because the Greek is lost (from Sim. 9.30.3); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Herm. Sim. 10.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 10.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/4/).