Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.11.7 (88.7)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:246–248

ἔστρωσαν γὰρ αἱ παρθένοι τοὺς λινοῦς χιτῶνας ἑαυτῶν χαμαὶ καὶ ἐμὲ ἀνέκλιναν εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐδὲν ὅλως ἐποίουν εἰ μὴ προσηύχοντο· κἀγὼ μετʼ αὐτῶν ἀδιαλείπτως προσηυχόμην καὶ οὐκ ἔλασσον ἐκείνων. καὶ ἔχαιρον αἱ παρθένοι οὕτω μου προσευχομένου. καὶ ἔμεινα ἐκεῖ μέχρι τῆς αὔριον ἕως ὥρας δευτέρας μετὰ τῶν παρθένων.

English · Claude translation

For the virgins spread their linen tunics on the ground and made me lie down in their midst, and they did nothing at all but pray; and I prayed with them without ceasing, and no less than they. And the virgins rejoiced that I prayed so. And I stayed there with the virgins until the next day, until the second hour.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:246–248 · 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)

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong vowel)): μετὰ τῶν παρθένον → μετὰ τῶν παρθένων.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/7/).