Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.6.4 (59.4)

Summary: Why the Son and angels were counselors.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:166

ὅτι δὲ ὁ κύριος σύμβουλον ἔλαβε τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς ἐνδόξους ἀγγέλους περὶ τῆς κληρονομίας τοῦ δούλου, ἄκουε·

But why the Lord took his Son and the glorious angels as counselors about the slave's inheritance, hear:

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.

Herm. Sim. 5.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 5.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/4/).