Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.2.1 (68.1)

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

Summary: Those with fruit-bearing sticks are crowned and sent into the tower.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:192

Ἐκέλευσε δὲ ὁ ἄγγελος κυρίου στεφάνους ἐνεχθῆναι. καὶ ἐνέχθησαν στέφανοι ὡσεὶ ἐκ φοινίκων γεγονότες, καὶ ἐστεφάνωσε τοὺς ἄνδρας τοὺς ἐπιδεδωκότας τὰς ῥάβδους τὰς ἐχούσας τὰς παραφυάδας καὶ καρπόν τινα καὶ ἀπέλυσεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν πύργον.

English · Claude translation

And the angel of the Lord ordered crowns to be brought. And crowns were brought, made as it were of palm leaves, and he crowned the men who had given back the sticks that had shoots and some fruit, and sent them away into the tower.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:192 · 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)

Scripture

Rev 7:9 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

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Herm. Sim. 8.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/1/).

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