Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.26.3 (103.3)

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

Summary: Rough stones are deniers who live alone apart from the church.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:280

οἱ δὲ ἐψωριακότες, οὗτοι οἱ ἀρνησάμενοί εἰσι καὶ μὴ ἐπιστρέψαντες ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλὰ χερσωθέντες καὶ γενόμενοι ἐρημώδεις· μὴ κολλώμενοι τοῖς δούλοις τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ μονάζοντες ἀπολλύουσι τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς.

English · Claude translation

And those who are rough are those who have denied and have not turned back to their Lord, but have become barren and desolate; not clinging to God's servants, but living alone, they destroy their own souls.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:280 · 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: Persecution

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Herm. Sim. 9.26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/3/).

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