Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.4.1 (70.1)

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

Summary: The Shepherd sits in the angel's place; Hermas serves him.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:198

Καὶ μετὰ ἡμέρας ὀλίγας ἤλθομεν εἰς τὸν τόπον, καὶ ἐκάθισεν ὁ ποιμὴν εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦ ἀγγέλου, κἀγὼ παρεστάθην αὐτῷ. καὶ λέγει μοι· Περίζωσαι ὠμόλινον καὶ διακόνει μοι. περιεζωσάμην ὠμόλινον ἐκ σάκκου γεγονὸς καθαρόν.

English · Claude translation

And after a few days we came to the place, and the shepherd sat down in the angel's place, and I stood beside him. And he said to me, “Gird yourself with a towel and serve me.” I girded myself with a clean towel made of sackcloth.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:198 · 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.

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Herm. Sim. 8.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/4/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/4/1/).

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