Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.5.4 (82.4)

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

Summary: He asks about the foundation stones and the rejected stones.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:230

καὶ διατί πρῶτον εἰς τὰ θεμέλια ι λίθοι ἐτέθησαν, εἶτα κ, εἶτα λε, εἶτα μ, καὶ περὶ τῶν λίθων τῶν ἀπεληλυθότων εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν καὶ πάλιν ἠρμένων καὶ εἰς τόπον ἴδιον ἀποτεθειμένων· περὶ πάντων τούτων ἀνάπαυσον τὴν ψυχήν μου, κύριε, καὶ γνώρισόν μοι αὐτά.

English · Claude translation

And why first ten stones were placed in the foundations, then twenty, then thirty-five, then forty, and about the stones that went into the building and were taken out again and put away in their own place: about all these things set my soul at rest, sir, and make them known to me.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:230 · 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

The Greek numerals here are ι (10), κ (20), λε (35), μ (40); in 9.4.3 the second number is given as twenty (εἴκοσι), but 9.15.4 speaks of twenty-five: the text is inconsistent.

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Herm. Sim. 9.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/5/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/5/4/).

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