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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.3.1 (113.1)

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

Summary: The virgins (the virtues) will live with Hermas to help him keep the commandments.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:300–302

misi autem tibi has virgines, ut habitent tecum; vidi enim eas affabiles tibi esse. habes ergo eas adiutrices, quo magis possis huius mandata servare; non potest enim fieri, ut sine his virginibus haec mandata serventur. video autem eas libenter esse tecum; sed ego praecipiam eis, ut omnino a domo tua non discedant.

English · Claude translation

And I have sent you these virgins to live with you; for I saw that they were friendly to you. You have them, then, as helpers, so that you may be better able to keep his commandments; for it is not possible for these commandments to be kept without these virgins. And I see that they are glad to be with you; but I will command them not to leave your house at all.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:300–302 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: v written as w): wideo autem → video autem.

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Herm. Sim. 10.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 10.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/1/).

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