Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.4.6 (81.6)

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

Summary: Stones not carried through the gate by the virgins stay unsightly.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:226–228

τινὲς δὲ λίθοι ἐπεδίδοντο ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνδρῶν εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνοντο λαμπροί, ἀλλʼ οἷοι ἐτέθησαν, τοιοῦτοι καὶ εὑρέθησαν· οὐ γὰρ ἦσαν ὑπὸ τῶν παρθένων ἐπιδεδομένοι οὐδὲ διὰ τῆς πύλης παρενηνεγμένοι. οὗτοι οὖν οἱ λίθοι ἀπρεπεῖς ἦσαν ἐν τῇ οἰκοδομῇ τοῦ πύργου.

English · Claude translation

But some stones were handed over by the men for the building and did not become bright, but as they were put in, so they were found; for they had not been handed over by the virgins, nor brought through the gate. These stones, then, were unsightly in the building of the tower.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:226–228 · 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. 9.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/4/6/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/4/6/).

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