Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.4.2 (114.2)

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

Summary: Everyone should be rescued from hardship.

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Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:302–304

dic omnibus, ut non cessent, quicumque recte facere possunt; bona opera exercere utile est illis. dico autem, omnem hominem de incommodis eripi oportere. et is enim, qui eget et in cotidiana vita patitur incommoda, in magno tormento est ac necessitate.

English · Claude translation

Tell all who are able to do right not to stop; it is useful for them to practice good works. And I say that every person ought to be rescued from hardships. For the one who is in need and suffers hardships in daily life is in great torment and distress.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:302–304 · 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.
Topics: Ethics

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Herm. Sim. 10.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/4/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 10.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/4/2/).

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