Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.5.1 (71.1)

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

Summary: Those with cracks are healed.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:200

Εἶτα ἐπεδίδουν οἱ τὰς ῥάβδους χλωρὰς μὲν ἔχοντες, σχισμὰς δὲ ἐχούσας· οὗτοι πάντες χλωρὰς ἐπέδωκαν καὶ ἔστησαν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον τάγμα. ἐχάρη δὲ ὁ ποιμὴν ἐπὶ τούτοις, ὅτι πάντες ἠλλοιώθησαν καὶ ἀπέθεντο τὰς σχισμὰς αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

Then those gave in their sticks who had them green but with cracks; these all gave them in green and stood in their own group. And the shepherd rejoiced over these, because they had all been changed and had put away their cracks.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:200 · 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. 8.5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/5/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/5/1/).

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