Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.28.2 (105.2)

Summary: Fruit trees are the martyrs.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:284

οἱ παθόντες ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, οἳ καὶ προθύμως ἔπαθον ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας· καὶ παρέδωκαν τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν.

those who suffered for the name of the Son of God, who also suffered eagerly with their whole heart and gave up their lives.

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.
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: Martyrdom

Herm. Sim. 9.28.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/28/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.28.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/28/2/).