Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.3.1 (69.1)

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

Summary: Hermas asks what the tree is.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:194

Λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, τὸ δένδρον τοῦτο γνώρισόν μοι τί ἐστιν· ἀποροῦμαι γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι τοσούτων κλάδων κοπέντων ὑγιές ἐστι τὸ δένδρον καὶ οὐδὲν φαίνεται κεκομμένον ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ· ἐν τούτῳ οὖν ἀποροῦμαι.

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “Sir, make known to me what this tree is; for I am perplexed about it, that though so many branches were cut, the tree is sound and nothing seems to have been cut from it. This is what perplexes me.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:194 · 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. 8.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/3/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/3/1/).

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