Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.10.3 (76.3)

Summary: Those who believed but sinned, yet were hospitable, repented at once.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:212–214

οἱ δὲ τὰς ῥάβδους αὐτῶν ξηρὰς ἐπιδεδωκότες, ἐλάχιστον δὲ χλωρὸν ἐχούσας, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ πιστεύσαντες μόνον, τὰ δὲ ἔργα τῆς ἀνομίας ἐργασάμενοι· οὐδέποτε δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπέστησαν καὶ τὸ ὄνομα ἡδέως ἐβάστασαν καὶ εἰς τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ἡδέως ὑπεδέξαντο τοὺς δούλους τοῦ θεοῦ. ἀκούσαντες οὖν ταύτην τὴν μετάνοιαν ἀδιστάκτως μετενόησαν, καὶ ἐργάζονται πᾶσαν ἀρετὴν καὶ δικαιοσύνην.

English · Claude translation

And those who gave in their sticks dry, but with a very little green, are those who only believed, but did the works of lawlessness; but they never departed from God, and they gladly bore the name, and gladly welcomed God's servants into their homes. Having heard, then, of this repentance, they repented without hesitation and do every virtue and righteousness.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:212–214 · 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.

Scripture

Heb 13:2 · echo, low confidence

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 8.10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/10/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/10/3/).