Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 7.6 (66.6)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:186

λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, σὺ μετʼ ἐμοῦ γίνου, καὶ δυνήσομαι πᾶσαν θλῖψιν ὑπενεγκεῖν. Ἐγώ, φησίν, ἔσομαι μετὰ σοῦ· ἐρωτήσω δὲ καὶ τὸν ἄγγελον τὸν τιμωρητήν, ἵνα σε ἐλαφροτέρως θλίψῃ· ἀλλʼ ὀλίγον χρόνον θλιβήσῃ καὶ πάλιν ἀποκατασταθήσῃ εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου. μόνον παράμεινον ταπεινοφρονῶν καὶ λειτουργῶν τῷ κυρίῳ ἐν πάσῃ καθαρᾷ καρδίᾳ, καὶ τὰ τέκνα σου καὶ ὁ οἶκός σου, καὶ πορεύου ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς μου αἷς σοι ἐντέλλομαι, καὶ δυνήσεταί σου ἡ μετάνοια ἰσχυρὰ καὶ καθαρὰ εἶναι·

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “Sir, be with me, and I shall be able to bear any affliction.” “I will be with you,” he said, “and I will also ask the punishing angel to afflict you more lightly; but you will be afflicted for a short time and then be restored to your house. Only remain humble and serve the Lord with a wholly pure heart, you and your children and your household, and walk in my commandments that I give you, and your repentance can be strong and pure;

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:186 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἐρωτήσω δέ καὶ → ἐρωτήσω δὲ καὶ.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/7/6/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/7/6/).