Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.6.3 (72.3)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:204

λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, νῦν οὖν μοι δήλωσον τοὺς τὰς ῥάβδους ἐπιδεδωκότας, ποταπός τις αὐτῶν ἐστί, καὶ τὴν τούτων κατοικίαν, ἵνα ἀκούσαντες οἱ πιστεύσαντες καὶ εἰληφότες τὴν σφραγῖδα καὶ τεθλακότες αὐτὴν καὶ μὴ τηρήσαντες ὑγιῆ, ἐπιγνόντες τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἔργα μετανοήσωσι, λαβόντες ὑπὸ σοῦ σφραγῖδα, καὶ δοξάσωσι τὸν κύριον, ὅτι ἐσπλαγχνίσθη ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀπέστειλέ σε τοῦ ἀνακαινίσαι τὰ πνεύματα αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “Sir, now make clear to me those who gave in the sticks, what each of them is like, and their dwelling place, so that those who have believed and received the seal and broken it and not kept it whole, when they hear, may recognize their own deeds and repent, receiving a seal from you, and glorify the Lord that he had compassion on them and sent you to renew their spirits.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:204 · 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.

Topics

Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

“The seal”: baptism (compare 2 Clem. 7.6; 8.6).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong letter); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἐστί. καὶ τὴν → ἐστί, καὶ τὴν; μενανοήσωσι → μετανοήσωσι.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 8.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/6/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/6/3/).