Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.1.2 (61.2)

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

Summary: The Shepherd tells him not to doubt the commandments.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:170

ὡς ταῦτα ἐν ἐμαυτῷ ἐλάλουν, βλέπω αὐτὸν ἐξαίφνης παρακαθήμενόν μοι καὶ λέγοντα ταῦτα· Τί διψυχεῖς περὶ τῶν ἐντολῶν ὧν σοι ἐνετειλάμην; καλαί εἰσιν· ὅλως μὴ διψυχήσῃς, ἀλλʼ ἔνδυσαι τὴν πίστιν τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ ἐν αὐταῖς πορεύσῃ· ἐγὼ γάρ σε ἐνδυναμώσω ἐν αὐταῖς.

English · Claude translation

As I was saying these things to myself, I suddenly saw him sitting beside me and saying this: “Why are you double-minded about the commandments I gave you? They are good; do not be double-minded at all, but put on faith in the Lord, and you will walk in them; for I will strengthen you in them.

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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. 6.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 6.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/2/).

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