Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.6.2 (83.2)

Summary: The builders attend him; the virgins greet him.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:232

καὶ οἱ ἓξ ἄνδρες οἱ εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἐφεστῶτες ἐκ δεξιῶν τε καὶ ἀριστερῶν περιεπάτησαν μετʼ αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάντες οἱ εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἐργασάμενοι μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἦσαν καὶ ἕτεροι πολλοὶ κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ ἔνδοξοι. αἱ δὲ παρθένοι αἱ τηροῦσαι τὸν πύργον προσδραμοῦσαι κατεφίλησαν αὐτὸν καὶ ἤρξαντο ἐγγὺς αὐτοῦ περιπατεῖν κύκλῳ τοῦ πύργου.

English · Claude translation

And the six men who were in charge of the building walked with him on the right and on the left, and all who had worked on the building were with him, and many other glorious ones around him. And the virgins who were guarding the tower ran up and kissed him and began to walk near him around the tower.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:232 · 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)

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/6/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/6/2/).