Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.4.1 (81.1)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:224

Καθὼς δὲ ἐστάθησαν ὁμοῦ κύκλῳ τῆς πύλης, οὕτως ἐβάσταζον αἱ δοκοῦσαι δυναταὶ εἶναι καὶ ὑπὸ τὰς γωνίας τοῦ λίθου ὑποδεδυκυῖαι ἦσαν. αἱ δὲ ἄλλαι ἐκ τῶν πλευρῶν τοῦ λίθου ὑποδεδύκεισαν καὶ οὕτως ἐβάσταζον πάντας τοὺς λίθους· διὰ δὲ τῆς πύλης διέφερον αὐτούς, καθὼς ἐκελεύσθησαν, καὶ ἐπεδίδουν τοῖς ἀνδράσιν εἰς τὸν πύργον· ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ἔχοντες τοὺς λίθους ᾠκοδόμουν.

English · Claude translation

And as they had stood together around the gate, so they carried them, those who seemed to be strong having gone under the corners of the stone, and the others under its sides; and so they carried all the stones. They brought them through the gate, as they had been ordered, and handed them to the men for the tower; and they took the stones and built.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:224 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ὁμοῦ κυκλῳ τῆς → ὁμοῦ κύκλῳ τῆς.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/4/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/4/1/).