Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.16.6 (93.6)

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

Summary: The apostles went down alive; the earlier dead went down dead and came up alive.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:262

κατέβησαν οὖν μετʼ αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ πάλιν ἀνέβησαν· ἀλλʼ οὗτοι μὲν ζῶντες κατέβησαν καὶ ζῶντες ἀνέβησαν· ἐκεῖνοι δὲ οἱ προκεκοιμημένοι νεκροὶ κατέβησαν, ζῶντες δὲ ἀνέβησαν.

English · Claude translation

So they went down with them into the water and came up again; but these went down alive and came up alive, while those who had fallen asleep before went down dead but came up alive.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:262 · 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.
Topics: Baptism

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Herm. Sim. 9.16.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/16/6/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.16.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/16/6/).

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