Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.7.4 (73.4)

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

Summary: Green but cracked sticks are good people jealous for first place.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:206–208

οἱ δὲ χλωρὰς ἐπιδεδωκότες τὰς ῥάβδους αὐτῶν καὶ σχισμὰς ἐχούσας, πάντοτε οὗτοι πιστοὶ καὶ ἀγαθοὶ ἐγένοντο, ἔχοντες δὲ ζῆλόν τινα ἐν ἀλλήλοις περὶ πρωτείων καὶ περὶ δόξης τινός· ἀλλὰ πάντες οὗτοι μωροί εἰσιν, ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἔχοντες ζῆλον περὶ πρωτείων.

English · Claude translation

And those who gave in their sticks green and with cracks have always been faithful and good, but had some jealousy among themselves about first places and about some glory; but all these are foolish, having jealousy among themselves about first places.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:206–208 · 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. 8.7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/7/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/7/4/).

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