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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.12.4 (89.4)

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

Summary: No one enters God's kingdom without receiving the name of the Son.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:250

εἶδες, φησίν, τοὺς λίθους τοὺς διὰ τῆς πύλης εἰσεληλυθότας εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ πύργου βεβλημένους, τοὺς δὲ μὴ εἰσεληλυθότας πάλιν ἀποβεβλημένους εἰς τὸν ἴδιον τόπον; Εἶδον, φημί, κύριε. Οὕτω, φησίν, εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ οὐδεὶς εἰσελεύσεται, εἰ μὴ λάβοι τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Did you see,” he said, “that the stones that came in through the gate were put into the building of the tower, but those that did not come in were thrown back again to their own place?” “I saw, sir,” I said. “So,” he said, “no one will enter the kingdom of God unless he receives his holy name.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:250 · 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)
Scripture
Topics
Baptism, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Receives his holy name”: in baptism (compare 9.16.3–4).

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Herm. Sim. 9.12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/12/4/).

Plain text
Herm. Sim. 9.12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/12/4/).

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