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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.7.3 (60.3)

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

Summary: God alone can heal sins committed in ignorance.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:168–170

Εἰ δέ τις, φημί, κύριε, γέγονεν ἄγνοια προτέρα, πρὶν ἀκουσθῶσι τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα, πῶς σωθῇ ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ μιάνας τὴν σάρκα αὐτοῦ; Περὶ τῶν προτέρων, φησίν, ἀγνοημάτων τῷ θεῷ μόνῳ δυνατὸν ἴασιν δοῦναι, αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐστι πᾶσα ἐξουσία,

English · Claude translation

“But if, sir,” I said, “there was ignorance before these words were heard, how will the person who defiled his flesh be saved?” “For former sins of ignorance,” he said, “it is possible for God alone to give healing; for all authority is his,

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:168–170 · 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. 5.7.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.7.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/3/).

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