Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.5.6 (71.6)

Summary: The nearly dry are found green and fruitful; the Shepherd rejoices.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:202

εἶτα ἐπέδωκαν οἱ ἐλάχιστον ἔχοντες χλωρόν, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ μέρη ξηρά· τούτων αἱ ῥάβδοι εὑρέθησαν τὸ πλεῖστον μέρος χλωραὶ καὶ παραφυάδας ἔχουσαι καὶ καρπὸν ἐν ταῖς παραφυάσι, καὶ ἕτεραι χλωραὶ ὅλαι. ἐπὶ ταύταις ταῖς ῥάβδοις ἐχάρη ὁ ποιμὴν λίαν μεγάλως, ὅτι οὕτως εὑρέθησαν. ἀπῆλθον δὲ οὗτοι ἕκαστος εἰς τὸ ἴδιον τάγμα.

English · Claude translation

Then those gave them in who had a very little green and the rest dry; their sticks were found for the most part green and with shoots, and fruit on the shoots, and others wholly green. The shepherd rejoiced exceedingly over these sticks, because they were found so. And these went away, each to his own group.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:202 · 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. 8.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/5/6/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/5/6/).