Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.14.3 (91.3)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Similitudes · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Hermas thanks God for sending the angel of repentance.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:256

ἐπὶ τούτοις πᾶσιν ηὐχαρίστησα τῷ κυρίῳ, ὅτι ἐσπλαγχνίσθη ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξαπέστειλε τὸν ἄγγελον τῆς μετανοίας εἰς ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἁμαρτήσαντας εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ ἀνεκαίνισεν ἡμῶν τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ἤδη κατεφθαρμένων ἡμῶν καὶ μὴ ἐχόντων ἐλπίδα τοῦ ζῆν ἀνενέωσε τὴν ζωὴν ἡμῶν.

English · Claude translation

For all these things I gave thanks to the Lord, because he had compassion on all who call on his name, and sent the angel of repentance to us who had sinned against him, and renewed our spirit, and, when we were already corrupted and had no hope of living, restored our life.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:256 · 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.
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Herm. Sim. 9.14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/14/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/14/3/).

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