Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.6.5 (83.5)

Summary: The flawed stones are removed and replaced.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:232

ἐκέλευσεν οὖν πάντας τούτους ἐκ τοῦ πύργου μετενεχθῆναι καὶ τεθῆναι παρὰ τὸν πύργον καὶ ἑτέρους ἐνεχθῆναι λίθους καὶ ἐμβληθῆναι εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτῶν.

He ordered, then, all these to be removed from the tower and put beside the tower, and other stones to be brought and put in their place.

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)

Herm. Sim. 9.6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/6/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.6.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/6/5/).