Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.2.6 (68.6)

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

Summary: The Shepherd plants the sticks to see if they will live.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:192–194

καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀπελθεῖν τὸν ἄγγελον λέγει μοι ὁ ποιμήν· Λάβωμεν πάντων τὰς ῥάβδους καὶ φυτεύσωμεν αὐτάς, εἴ τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν δυνήσονται ζῆσαι. λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, τὰ ξηρὰ ταῦτα πῶς δύνανται ζῆσαι;

English · Claude translation

And after the angel had gone away, the shepherd said to me, “Let us take the sticks of all and plant them, to see whether any of them can live.” I said to him, “Sir, how can these dry ones live?”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:192–194 · 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. 8.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/6/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/2/6/).

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