Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.2.5 (68.5)

Summary: The angel leaves the Shepherd to examine the rest.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:192

μετὰ τὸ ταῦτα τελέσαι τὸν ἄγγελον λέγει τῷ ποιμένι· Ἐγὼ ὑπάγω· σὺ δὲ τούτους ἀπολύσεις εἰς τὰ τείχη, καθὼς ἄξιός ἐστί τις κατοικεῖν. κατανόησον δὲ τὰς ῥάβδους αὐτῶν ἐπιμελῶς καὶ οὕτως ἀπόλυσον· ἐπιμελῶς δὲ κατανόησον. βλέπε, μή τίς σε παρέλθῃ, φησίν, ἐὰν δὲ τίς σε παρέλθῃ, ἐγὼ αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον δοκιμάσω. ταῦτα εἰπὼν τῷ ποιμένι ἀπῆλθε.

English · Claude translation

After the angel had finished these things, he said to the shepherd, “I am going away; but you shall send these away to the walls, as each is worthy to dwell. But examine their sticks carefully and so send them away; examine them carefully. See that no one gets past you,” he said; “and if anyone gets past you, I will test them at the altar.” Having said this to the shepherd, he went away.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:192 · 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.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 8.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/5/).