Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.13.7 (90.7)

Summary: They once had the name and the virtues, and lived in unity.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:254

οὗτοι, φησί, πάντες τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ ἔλαβον, ἔλαβον δὲ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τῶν παρθένων τούτων. λαβόντες οὖν τὰ πνεύματα ταῦτα ἐνεδυναμώθησαν καὶ ἦσαν μετὰ τῶν δούλων τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ἦν αὐτῶν ἓν πνεῦμα καὶ ἓν σῶμα καὶ ἓν ἔνδυμα· τὰ γὰρ αὐτὰ ἐφρόνουν καὶ δικαιοσύνην εἰργάζοντο.

English · Claude translation

These,” he said, “all received the name of the Son of God, and also received the power of these virgins. Having received these spirits, then, they were strengthened and were with the servants of God, and they had one spirit and one body and one garment; for they thought the same things and did righteousness.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:254 · 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. 9.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/13/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.13.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/13/7/).