Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.13.8 (90.8)

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

Summary: They were seduced by the women in black and stripped off the virtues.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:254

μετὰ οὖν χρόνον τινὰ ἀνεπείσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν γυναικῶν ὧν εἶδες μέλανα ἱμάτια ἐνδεδυμένων, τοὺς ὤμους ἔξω ἐχουσῶν καὶ τὰς τρίχας λελυμένας καὶ εὐμόρφων· ταύτας ἰδόντες ἐπεθύμησαν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐνεδύσαντο τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῶν, τῶν δὲ παρθένων ἀπεδύσαντο τὸ ἔνδυμα καὶ τὴν δύναμιν.

English · Claude translation

After some time, then, they were persuaded by the women whom you saw dressed in black garments, with their shoulders bare and their hair loose, and beautiful; seeing them, they desired them and put on their power, and stripped off the garment and power of the virgins.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:254 · 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: Ethics

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Herm. Sim. 9.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/13/8/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.13.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/13/8/).

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