Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.4.1 (57.1)

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

Summary: Hermas asks for the meaning of the vineyard parable.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:160–162

Ἐδεήθην αὐτοῦ πολλά, ἵνα μοι δηλώσῃ τὴν παραβολὴν τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ τοῦ δεσπότου καὶ τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος καὶ τοῦ δούλου τοῦ χαρακώσαντος τὸν ἀμπελῶνα καὶ τῶν χαράκων καὶ τῶν βοτανῶν τῶν ἐκτετιλμένων ἐκ τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τῶν φίλων τῶν συμβούλων· συνῆκα γάρ, ὅτι παραβολή τίς ἐστι ταῦτα πάντα.

English · Claude translation

I begged him earnestly to explain to me the parable of the field and the master and the vineyard and the slave who fenced the vineyard and the fences and the weeds pulled out of the vineyard and the son and the friends who were counselors; for I understood that all these things are a parable.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:160–162 · 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. 5.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/4/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/4/1/).

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