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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.27.2 (104.2)

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

Summary: Sheltering trees are hospitable bishops who cared for the needy and widows.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:284

ἐπίσκοποι καὶ φιλόξενοι, οἵτινες ἡδέως εἰς τοὺς οἴκους ἑαυτῶν πάντοτε ὑπεδέξαντο τοὺς δούλους τοῦ θεοῦ ἄτερ ὑποκρίσεως· οἱ δὲ ἐπίσκοποι πάντοτε τοὺς ὑστερημένους καὶ τὰς χήρας τῇ διακονίᾳ ἑαυτῶν ἀδιαλείπτως ἐσκέπασαν καὶ ἁγνῶς ἀνεστράφησαν πάντοτε.

English · Claude translation

bishops and hospitable people, who always gladly received God's servants into their homes without hypocrisy; and the bishops always sheltered the needy and the widows by their ministry without ceasing, and always lived in purity.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:284 · 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.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • “Bishops” (ἐπίσκοποι) here are praised for hospitality and care of the poor; compare 1 Tim 3:2.

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Herm. Sim. 9.27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/27/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/27/2/).

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