Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.3.5 (80.5)

Summary: The virgins carry the first stones together.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:224

αἱ δὲ παρθένοι τοὺς δέκα λίθους τοὺς πρώτους τοὺς ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ ἀναβάντας ἐπετίθουν ἀλλήλαις καὶ κατὰ ἕνα λίθον ἐβάσταζον ὁμοῦ.

And the virgins placed the first ten stones that came up from the deep upon one another and carried them together, one stone at a time.

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.

Herm. Sim. 9.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/3/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/3/5/).