Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.1.3 (61.3)

Summary: Repentance is vain without keeping the commandments.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:170

αὗται αἱ ἐντολαὶ σύμφοροί εἰσι τοῖς μέλλουσι μετανοεῖν· ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ πορευθῶσιν ἐν αὐταῖς, εἰς μάτην ἐστὶν ἡ μετάνοια αὐτῶν.

These commandments are profitable for those who are going to repent; for if they do not walk in them, their repentance is in vain.

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.

Herm. Sim. 6.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 6.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/3/).