Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 4.8 (53.8)

Summary: Do these things and bear fruit.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:150

ταῦτα οὖν ἐὰν ποιήσῃς, δύνασαι καρποφορῆσαι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸν ἐρχόμενον· καὶ ὃς ἂν ταῦτα ποιήσῃ, καρποφορήσει.

If, then, you do these things, you can bear fruit for the world to come; and whoever does these things will bear fruit.”

Source: Lake, LCL 25:150 · 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.

Herm. Sim. 4.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/4/8/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 4.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/4/8/).