Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.2.5 (10.5)

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

Summary: Six young men build the tower with stones brought by countless others.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:30

ἐν τετραγώνῳ δὲ ᾠκοδομεῖτο ὁ πύργος ὑπὸ τῶν ἓξ νεανίσκων τῶν ἐληλυθότων μετʼ αὐτῆς· ἄλλαι δὲ μυριάδες ἀνδρῶν παρέφερον λίθους, οἱ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ, οἱ δὲ ἐκ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐπεδίδουν τοῖς ἓξ νεανίσκοις· ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ἐλάμβανον καὶ ᾠκοδόμουν.

English · Claude translation

The tower was being built foursquare by the six young men who had come with her; and countless thousands of other men were bringing stones, some from the deep and some from the land, and handing them to the six young men; and they took them and built.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:30 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 6–71 · 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); made independently of existing English translations.

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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (dropped letter)): ἄλαι δὲ μυριάδες → ἄλλαι δὲ μυριάδες.

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Herm. Vis. 3.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/2/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/2/5/).

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