Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.4.1 (64.1)

Summary: Are they punished as long as they indulged?

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:178

Λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, ἔτι μοι τοῦτο δήλωσον. Τί, φησίν, ἐπιζητεῖς; Εἰ ἄρα, φημί, κύριε, τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον βασανίζονται οἱ τρυφῶντες καὶ ἀπατώμενοι, ὅσον τρυφῶσι καὶ ἀπατῶνται; λέγει μοι· Τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον βασανίζονται.

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “Sir, make this also clear to me.” “What are you asking?” he said. “Whether, sir,” I said, “those who live in luxury and deceit are tormented for the same length of time as they lived in luxury and deceit.” He said to me, “They are tormented for the same length of time.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:178 · 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.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 6.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/4/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 6.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/4/1/).