Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.2.4 (68.4)

Summary: Those who kept their sticks green are also sealed and clothed.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:192

καὶ τοὺς τὰς ῥάβδους ἐπιδεδωκότας χλωρὰς ὡς ἔλαβον ἀπέλυσε, δοὺς αὐτοῖς ἱματισμὸν καὶ σφραγῖδας.

And those who had given back their sticks green as they received them he sent away, giving them clothing and seals.

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)

Herm. Sim. 8.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/4/).