Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.5.7 (82.7)

Summary: The master is about to come.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:230

καὶ ἐπερωτᾷ ὁ ποιμὴν τὰς παρθένους, εἰ ἄρα παρεγεγόνει ὁ δεσπότης τοῦ πύργου. αἱ δὲ ἔφησαν μέλλειν αὐτὸν ἔρχεσθαι κατανοῆσαι τὴν οἰκοδομήν.

And the shepherd asked the virgins whether the master of the tower had arrived. And they said that he was about to come to inspect the building.

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)

Herm. Sim. 9.5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/5/7/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/5/7/).