Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.10.1 (87.1)

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

Summary: The Shepherd fills the holes left by the removed stones.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:242–244

Κἀγὼ περιπατῶν μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἱλαρὸς ἤμην τοιαῦτα ἀγαθὰ βλέπων. λέγει δέ μοι ὁ ποιμήν· Ὕπαγε καὶ φέρε ἄσβεστον καὶ ὄστρακον λεπτόν, ἵνα τοὺς τύπους τῶν λίθων τῶν ἠρμένων καὶ εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν βεβλημένων ἀναπληρώσω· δεῖ γὰρ τοῦ πύργου τὰ κύκλῳ πάντα ὁμαλὰ γενέσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And I, walking with him, was cheerful at seeing such good things. And the shepherd said to me, “Go and bring lime and fine clay, so that I may fill up the marks of the stones that were taken out and put into the building; for everything around the tower must be made level.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:242–244 · 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)

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/1/).

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