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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.10.2 (87.2)

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

Summary: The area around the tower is cleaned.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:244

καὶ ἐποίησα καθὼς ἐκέλευσε, καὶ ἤνεγκα πρὸς αὐτόν. Ὑπηρέτει μοι, φησί, καὶ ἐγγὺς τὸ ἔργον τελεσθήσεται. ἐπλήρωσεν οὖν τοὺς τύπους τῶν λίθων τῶν εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἀπεληλυθότων καὶ ἐκέλευσε σαρωθῆναι τὰ κύκλῳ τοῦ πύργου καὶ καθαρὰ γενέσθαι·

English · Claude translation

And I did as he ordered and brought them to him. “Serve me,” he said, “and the work will soon be finished.” So he filled up the marks of the stones that had gone into the building and ordered the area around the tower to be swept and made clean.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:244 · 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.
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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. 9.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/2/).

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