Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.32.3 (109.3)

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:294

si enim dederis fulloni vestimentum novum integrum idque integrum iterum vis recipere, fullo autem scissum tibi illud reddet, recipies illud? nonne statim scandesces et eum convicio persequeris, dicens: vestimentum integrum tibi dedi; quare scidisti illud et inutile redegisti? et propter scissuram, quam in eo fecisti, in usu esse non potest. nonne haec omnia verba dices fulloni ergo et de scissura, quam in vestimento tuo fecerit?

English · Claude translation

For if you give a fuller a new garment whole, and wish to receive it back whole, but the fuller gives it back to you torn, will you accept it? Will you not at once flare up and pursue him with reproach, saying, ‘I gave you a garment whole; why have you torn it and made it useless? Because of the tear you have made in it, it cannot be used.’ Will you not say all these words to the fuller about the tear he has made in your garment?

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:294 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

Translated from the Latin. A fuller cleaned and finished cloth.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: v written as w): westimentum integrum → vestimentum integrum.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/3/).