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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.6.3 (59.3)

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

Summary: The Son gave the people the law received from the Father.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:166

αὐτὸς οὖν καθαρίσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας τοῦ λαοῦ ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖς τὰς τρίβους τῆς ζωῆς, δοὺς αὐτοῖς τὸν νόμον, ὃν ἔλαβε παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Having himself, then, cleansed the sins of the people, he showed them the paths of life, giving them the law that he received from his Father.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:166 · 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. 5.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/3/).

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