Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.15.5 (92.5)

Summary: Why did the virgins carry even these stones?

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:260

Διατί οὖν, φημί, κύριε, αἱ παρθένοι καὶ τούτους τοὺς λίθους ἐπέδωκαν εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ πύργου, διενέγκασαι διὰ τῆς πύλης;

“Why, then, sir,” I said, “did the virgins hand over these stones too for the building of the tower, carrying them through the gate?”

Source: Lake, LCL 25:260 · 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.

Herm. Sim. 9.15.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/15/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.15.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/15/5/).