Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.1.5 (61.5)

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

Summary: The Shepherd shows him a young shepherd in yellow.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:172

καὶ μετὰ τὸ ταῦτα λαλῆσαι αὐτὸν μετʼ ἐμοῦ, λέγει μοι· Ἄγωμεν εἰς ἀγρόν, καὶ δείξω σοι τοὺς ποιμένας τῶν προβάτων. Ἄγωμεν, φημί, κύριε. καὶ ἤλθομεν εἴς τι πεδίον, καὶ δεικνύει μοι ποιμένα νεανίσκον ἐνδεδυμένον σύνθεσιν ἱματίων τῷ χρώματι κροκώδη.

English · Claude translation

And after he had spoken these things with me, he said to me, “Let us go into the country, and I will show you the shepherds of the sheep.” “Let us go, sir,” I said. And we came to a certain plain, and he showed me a young shepherd dressed in a suit of clothes saffron in color.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:172 · 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. 6.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 6.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/5/).

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