Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.10.5 (87.5)

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

Summary: Hermas holds him back and begs for an explanation.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:244

ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπελαβόμην αὐτοῦ τῆς πήρας καὶ ἠρξάμην αὐτὸν ὁρκίζειν κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου, ἵνα μοι ἐπιλύσῃ, ἃ ἔδειξέ μοι. λέγει μοι· Μικρὸν ἔχω ἀκαιρεθῆναι καὶ πάντα σοι ἐπιλύσω· ἔκδεξαί με ὧδε, ἕως ἔρχομαι.

English · Claude translation

But I took hold of his bag and began to adjure him by the Lord to explain to me what he had shown me. He said to me, “I have to be busy for a little, and I will explain everything to you; wait for me here until I come.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:244 · 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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Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (a quotation follows)): λέγει μοι. Μικρὸν → λέγει μοι· Μικρὸν.

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/10/5/).

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