Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.7.1 (84.1)

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

Summary: The lord of the tower hands the rejected stones to the Shepherd.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:234

Ταῦτα οὖν συντελέσας ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἔνδοξος καὶ κύριος ὅλου τοῦ πύργου προσεκαλέσατο τὸν ποιμένα καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτῷ τοὺς λίθους πάντας τοὺς παρὰ τὸν πύργον κειμένους, τοὺς ἀποβεβλημένους ἐκ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς, καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ·

English · Claude translation

When, then, the glorious man, the lord of the whole tower, had finished these things, he called the shepherd and handed over to him all the stones lying beside the tower, those that had been rejected from the building, and said to him,

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:234 · 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)

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Herm. Sim. 9.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/7/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/7/1/).

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