Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.11.8 (88.8)

Summary: Hermas feasted all night on the words of the Lord.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:248

εἶτα παρῆν ὁ ποιμήν, καὶ λέγει ταῖς παρθένοις· Μή τινα αὐτῷ ὕβριν πεποιήκατε; Ἐρώτα, φασίν, αὐτόν. λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, εὐφράνθην μετʼ αὐτῶν μείνας. Τί, φησίν, ἐδείπνησας; Ἐδείπνησα, φημί, κύριε, ῥήματα κυρίου ὅλην τὴν νύκτα. Καλῶς, φησίν, ἔλαβόν σε; Ναί, φημί, κύριε.

English · Claude translation

Then the shepherd came, and said to the virgins, “You have not done him any insult?” “Ask him,” they said. I said to him, “Sir, I rejoiced to stay with them.” “What,” he said, “did you have for supper?” “I had for supper, sir,” I said, “the words of the Lord all night long.” “Did they receive you well?” he said. “Yes, sir,” I said.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:248 · 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)

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.11.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/8/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.11.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/11/8/).