Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.4.2 (81.2)

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

Summary: The ten stones form the foundation; the rock and gate bear the whole tower.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:224–226

ἡ οἰκοδομὴ δὲ τοῦ πύργου ἐγένετο ἐπὶ τὴν πέτραν τὴν μεγάλην καὶ ἐπάνω τῆς πύλης. ἡρμόσθησαν οὖν οἱ δέκα λίθοι ἐκεῖνοι καὶ ἐνέπλησαν ὅλην τὴν πέτραν· καὶ ἐγένοντο ἐκεῖνοι θεμέλιος τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τοῦ πύργου· ἡ δὲ πέτρα καὶ ἡ πύλη ἦν βαστάζουσα ὅλον τὸν πύργον·

English · Claude translation

The building of the tower was on the great rock and above the gate. Those ten stones were fitted together and filled the whole rock; and they became the foundation of the building of the tower; and the rock and the gate were supporting the whole tower.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:224–226 · 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 (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ὅλην τὴν πετραν → ὅλην τὴν πέτραν.

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Herm. Sim. 9.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/4/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/4/2/).

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