Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.17.4 (94.4)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:264–266

Ὅτι, φησί, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη τὰ ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν κατοικοῦντα, ἀκούσαντα καὶ πιστεύσαντα ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι ἐκλήθησαν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ. λαβόντες οὖν τὴν σφραγῖδα μίαν φρόνησιν ἔσχον καὶ ἕνα νοῦν, καὶ μία πίστις αὐτῶν ἐγένετο καὶ μία ἀγάπη, καὶ τὰ πνεύματα τῶν παρθένων μετὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος ἐφόρεσαν· διὰ τοῦτο ἡ οἰκοδομὴ τοῦ πύργου μιᾷ χρόᾳ ἐγένετο λαμπρὰ ὡς ὁ ἥλιος.

English · Claude translation

“Because,” he said, “all the nations that dwell under heaven, having heard and believed, were called by the name of the Son of God. So having received the seal, they had one understanding and one mind, and their faith became one and their love one, and they bore the spirits of the virgins along with the name; this is why the building of the tower became bright with one color like the sun.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:264–266 · 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.

Scripture

Eph 4:5 · echo, medium confidence
Acts 4:32 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Baptism

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): κατοικουντα → κατοικοῦντα.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.17.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/17/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.17.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/17/4/).