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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.3.5 (113.5)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Similitudes · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: The angel entrusts Hermas and his house to the virgins.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:302

ταῦτα εἰπὼν τῷ ποιμένι πάλιν παρέδωκέν με καὶ τὰς παρθένους καλέσας... λέγει αὐταῖς· quoniam video vos libenter in domo huius habitare, commendo eum vobis et domum eius, ut a domo eius non recedatis omnino. illae vero haec verba libenter audierunt.

English · Claude translation

Having said this to the shepherd, he again handed me over, and calling the virgins, … he said to them, “Since I see that you are glad to live in this man's house, I commend him and his house to you, so that you may not leave his house at all.” And they heard these words gladly.

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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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • The beginning of this section survives in Greek, the rest in Latin; a few words are lost where the two join.

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Herm. Sim. 10.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 10.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/5/).

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