Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.9.4 (75.4)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:212

ἕτεροι δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐδιψύχησαν μὴ ἐλπίζοντες σωθῆναι διὰ τὰς πράξεις, ἃς ἔπραξαν· ἕτεροι δὲ ἐδιψύχησαν καὶ σχίσματα ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἐποίησαν. τούτοις οὖν τοῖς διψυχήσασι διὰ τὰς πράξεις αὐτῶν μετάνοια ἔτι ἐστίν· ἀλλʼ ἡ μετάνοια αὐτῶν ταχινὴ ὀφείλει εἶναι, ἵνα ἡ κατοικία αὐτῶν γένηται εἰς τὸν πύργον· τῶν δὲ μὴ μετανοούντων, ἀλλʼ ἐπιμενόντων ταῖς ἡδοναῖς, ὁ θάνατος ἐγγύς.

English · Claude translation

And others of them were double-minded, not hoping to be saved because of the deeds they had done; and others were double-minded and made divisions among themselves. For these, then, who were double-minded because of their deeds, there is still repentance; but their repentance ought to be quick, so that their dwelling may be in the tower; but for those who do not repent but remain in their pleasures, death is near.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:212 · 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 (punctuation slip in the digital text): εἰς τὸν πύργον τῶν δὲ μὴ → εἰς τὸν πύργον· τῶν δὲ μὴ.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 8.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/9/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/9/4/).