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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.4.5 (114.5)

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

Summary: The angel departs, promising to send back the Shepherd and the virgins.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:304

postquam vero locutus est mecum, surrexit de lecto et apprehenso pastore et virginibus abiit, dicens autem mihi, remissurum se pastorem illum et virgines in domum meam.

English · Claude translation

After he had spoken with me, he rose from the bed, and taking the shepherd and the virgins he went away, saying to me that he would send that shepherd and the virgins back to my house.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:304 · 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
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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: letters misread): pastorem ilium → pastorem illum.

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Herm. Sim. 10.4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/4/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 10.4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/4/5/).

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