Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.2.8 (10.8)

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

Summary: Flawed stones lie around the tower unused.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:32

ἄλλοι δὲ λίθοι πολλοὶ κύκλῳ τοῦ πύργου ἔκειντο, καὶ οὐκ ἐχρῶντο αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκοδομήν· ἦσαν γάρ τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐψωριακότες, ἕτεροι δὲ σχισμὰς ἔχοντες, ἄλλοι δὲ κεκολοβωμένοι, ἄλλοι δὲ λευκοὶ καὶ στρογγύλοι, μὴ ἁρμόζοντες εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομήν.

English · Claude translation

And many other stones lay around the tower, and they did not use them for the building; for some of them were rough, others had cracks, others were cut short, and others were white and round, not fitting into the building.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:32 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 6–71 · 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); 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. Vis. 3.2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/2/8/).

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Herm. Vis. 3.2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/2/8/).

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