Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.11.1 (88.1)

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

Summary: The virgins tell him to wait.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:246

Λέγουσί μοι αἱ παρθένοι· Σήμερον ὁ ποιμὴν ὧδε οὐκ ἔρχεται. Τί οὖν, φημί, ποιήσω ἐγώ; Μέχρις ὀψέ, φασίν, περίμεινον αὐτόν· καὶ ἐὰν ἔλθῃ, λαλήσει μετὰ σοῦ, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔλθῃ, μενεῖς μεθʼ ἡμῶν ὧδε ἕως ἔρχεται.

English · Claude translation

The virgins said to me, “Today the shepherd is not coming here.” “What, then, shall I do?” I said. “Wait for him until evening,” they said; “and if he comes, he will speak with you, but if he does not come, you will stay with us here until he comes.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:246 · 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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): Λέγουσι μοι → Λέγουσί μοι.

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Herm. Sim. 9.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/1/).

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