Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.3.4 (56.4)

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

Summary: The Shepherd will be with all who are eager to do good.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:158

λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, ὃ ἐάν μοι ἐντείλῃ, φυλάξω αὐτό· οἶδα γάρ, ὅτι σὺ μετʼ ἐμοῦ εἶ. Ἔσομαι, φησί, μετὰ σοῦ, ὅτι τοιαύτην προθυμίαν ἔχεις τῆς ἀγαθοποιήσεως, καὶ μετὰ πάντων δὲ ἔσομαι, φησίν, ὅσοι ταύτην τὴν προθυμίαν ἔχουσιν.

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “Sir, whatever you command me, I will keep; for I know that you are with me.” “I will be with you,” he said, “because you have such eagerness for doing good; and I will be with all,” he said, “who have this eagerness.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:158 · 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. 5.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/3/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/3/4/).

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