Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.7.1 (60.1)

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

Summary: Keep your flesh pure so that the Spirit may bear witness to it.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:168

Ηὐφράνθην, φημί, κύριε, ταύτην τὴν ἐπίλυσιν ἀκούσας. Ἄκουε νῦν, φησί· τὴν σάρκα σου ταύτην φύλασσε καθαρὰν καὶ ἀμίαντον, ἵνα τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ κατοικοῦν ἐν αὐτῇ μαρτυρήσῃ αὐτῇ καὶ δικαιωθῇ σου ἡ σάρξ.

English · Claude translation

“I was glad, sir,” I said, “to hear this explanation.” “Hear now,” he said: “keep this flesh of yours pure and undefiled, so that the Spirit that dwells in it may bear witness to it and your flesh may be justified.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:168 · 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. 5.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/1/).

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