Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.11.2 (88.2)

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

Summary: They will not let him leave.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:246

λέγω αὐταῖς· Ἐκδέξομαι αὐτὸν ἕως ὀψέ· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔλθῃ, ἀπελεύσομαι εἰς τὸν οἶκον καὶ πρωῒ ἐπανήξω. αἱ δὲ ἀποκριθεῖσαι λέγουσί μοι· Ἡμῖν παρεδόθης· οὐ δύνασαι ἀφʼ ἡμῶν ἀναχωρῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

I said to them, “I will wait for him until evening; but if he does not come, I will go away home and come back early in the morning.” And they answered me, “You have been entrusted to us; you cannot go away from us.”

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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong letter)): ἀκοκριθεῖσαι → ἀποκριθεῖσαι.

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Herm. Sim. 9.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/2/).

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