Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.3.6 (69.6)

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

Summary: The crowned are those who suffered for the law: the martyrs.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:196

Τίνες οὖν, φημί, κύριε, εἰσὶν οἱ ἐστεφανωμένοι καὶ εἰς τὸν πύργον ὑπάγοντες; Ὅσοι, φησίν, ἀντεπάλαισαν τῷ διαβόλῳ καὶ ἐνίκησαν αὐτόν, ἐστεφανωμένοι εἰσίν· οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου παθόντες·

English · Claude translation

“Who, then, sir,” I said, “are those who were crowned and went into the tower?” “All who wrestled with the devil and conquered him,” he said, “are crowned; these are those who suffered for the law.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:196 · 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.
Topics: Martyrdom

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Herm. Sim. 8.3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/3/6/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/3/6/).

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