Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.4.6 (70.6)

Summary: The half-dry vary: some revive, some bear fruit, some decay.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:200

εἶτα ἐπέδωκαν οἱ τὰς ἡμιξήρους καὶ σχισμὰς ἐχούσας· καὶ πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν χλωρὰς ἐπέδωκαν καὶ μὴ ἐχούσας σχισμάς· τινὲς δὲ χλωρὰς καὶ παραφυάδας ἐχούσας καὶ εἰς τὰς παραφυάδας καρπούς, οἵους εἶχον οἱ εἰς τὸν πύργον πορευθέντες ἐστεφανωμένοι. τινὲς δὲ ἐπέδωκαν ξηρὰς καὶ βεβρωμένας, τινὲς δὲ ξηρὰς καὶ ἀβρώτους, τινὲς δὲ οἷαι ἦσαν ἡμίξηροι καὶ σχισμὰς ἔχουσαι. ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς ἕνα ἕκαστον χωρὶς σταθῆναι, τοὺς μὲν πρὸς τὰ ἴδια τάγματα, τοὺς δὲ χωρίς.

English · Claude translation

Then those gave them in who had the half-dry ones with cracks; and many of them gave them in green and without cracks; some green and with shoots, and fruit on the shoots, like those who went into the tower crowned. Some gave them in dry and eaten, some dry and uneaten, and some as they were, half-dry and with cracks. He ordered each of them to stand apart, some with their own groups and some apart.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:200 · 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. 8.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/4/6/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/4/6/).