Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.3.4 (80.4)

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

Summary: The virgins must carry every stone through the gate.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:224

οἱ δὲ ἓξ ἄνδρες ἐκάλουν τὰς παρθένους καὶ ἐκέλευσαν αὐτὰς τοὺς λίθους πάντας τοὺς μέλλοντας εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ὑπάγειν τοῦ πύργου βαστάζειν καὶ διαπορεύεσθαι διὰ τῆς πύλης καὶ ἐπιδιδόναι τοῖς ἀνδράσι τοῖς μέλλουσιν οἰκοδομεῖν τὸν πύργον.

English · Claude translation

And the six men called the virgins and ordered them to carry all the stones that were to go into the building of the tower, and to pass through the gate and hand them to the men who were to build the tower.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:224 · 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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Herm. Sim. 9.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/3/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/3/4/).

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