Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.30.3 (107.3)

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

Summary: Believers present and future are of one innocent race.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

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Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:290

quodsi de ceteris montibus adiecisset, necesse habuisset rursus visitare eam turrem atque purgare. hi autem omnes candidi inventi sunt, πιστεύσαντες καὶ οἱ μέλλοντες πιστεύειν· ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γὰρ γένους εἰσίν. μακάριον τὸ γένος τοῦτο, ὅτι ἄκακόν ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

But if he had added from the other mountains, he would have had to visit that tower again and cleanse it. But all these were found white, those who have believed and those who will believe; for they are of the same race. Blessed is this race, because it is innocent.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:290 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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)

Notes

Translation notes

From here the original Greek survives only in fragments. Lake prints the ancient Latin translation, with the surviving Greek where it exists; passages in Latin are translated from the Latin.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: dropped letter restored; Latin decoded from Greek letters: dropped letters restored; Latin decoded from Greek letters: word split in two): de ceter montibus → de ceteris montibus; visitar eam → visitare eam; can didi → candidi.

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Herm. Sim. 9.30.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/30/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.30.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/30/3/).

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