Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 1.3 (50.3)

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

Summary: The lord of this world's city will expel those who do not keep his laws.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:138

ἄφρον καὶ δίψυχε καὶ ταλαίπωρε ἄνθρωπε, οὐ νοεῖς, ὅτι ταῦτα πάντα ἀλλότριά εἰσι καὶ ὑπʼ ἐξουσίαν ἑτέρου εἰσίν; ἐρεῖ γὰρ ὁ κύριος τῆς πόλεως ταύτης· Οὐ θέλω σε κατοικεῖν εἰς τὴν πόλιν μου, ἀλλʼ ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ταύτης, ὅτι τοῖς νόμοις μου οὐ χρᾶσαι.

English · Claude translation

Foolish, double-minded, and wretched man, do you not understand that all these things belong to others and are under the power of another? For the lord of this city will say, ‘I do not want you to live in my city; get out of this city, because you do not keep my laws.’

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:138 · 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. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/1/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/1/3/).

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