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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.4.1 (114.1)

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

Summary: Hermas must proclaim God's works boldly.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:302

ait deinde mihi: viriliter in ministerio hoc conversare, omni homini indica magnalia domini, et habebis gratiam in hoc ministerio. quicumque ergo in his mandatis ambulaverit, vivet et felix erit in vita sua; quicumque vero neglexerit, non vivet et erit infelix in vita sua.

English · Claude translation

Then he said to me, “Behave manfully in this ministry; declare to every person the mighty works of the Lord, and you will have favor in this ministry. Whoever, then, walks in these commandments will live and be happy in his life; but whoever neglects them will not live and will be unhappy in his life.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:302 · 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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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: v written as w): wiriliter → viriliter.

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Herm. Sim. 10.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/4/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 10.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/4/1/).

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