Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.7.4 (60.4)

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

Summary: Flesh and spirit are defiled together; keep both pure.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:170

ἐὰν τὸ λοιπὸν μὴ μιάνῃς σου τὴν σάρκα μηδὲ τὸ πνεῦμα· ἀμφότερα γὰρ κοινά ἐστι καὶ ἄτερ ἀλλήλων μιανθῆναι οὐ δύναται. ἀμφότερα οὖν καθαρὰ φύλασσε, καὶ ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ.

English · Claude translation

if from now on you do not defile your flesh or the Spirit; for both are common, and one cannot be defiled without the other. Keep both pure, then, and you will live to God.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:170 · 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. 5.7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/4/).

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