Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.10.4 (87.4)

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

Summary: All is clean; the Shepherd prepares to leave.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:244

λέγει μοι ὁ ποιμήν· Πάντα, φησί, κεκάθαρται· ἐὰν ἔλθῃ ὁ κύριος ἐπισκέψασθαι τὸν πύργον, οὐκ ἔχει ἡμῖν οὐδὲν μέμψασθαι. ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἤθελεν ὑπάγειν.

English · Claude translation

The shepherd said to me, “Everything,” he said, “has been cleansed; if the lord comes to inspect the tower, he has nothing to blame us for.” Having said this he wished to go away.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:244 · 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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Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (misplaced accent; missing iota subscript)): κεκαθάρται· ἐὰν ἔλθη → κεκάθαρται· ἐὰν ἔλθῃ.

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/4/).

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