Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.17.5 (94.5)

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

Summary: Some defiled themselves and became worse than before.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:266

μετὰ δὲ τὸ εἰσελθεῖν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ γενέσθαι ἓν σῶμα, τινὲς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐμίαναν ἑαυτοὺς καὶ ἐξεβλήθησαν ἐκ τοῦ γένους τῶν δικαίων καὶ πάλιν ἐγένοντο, οἷοι πρότερον ἦσαν, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ χείρονες.

English · Claude translation

But after they had come in together and become one body, some of them defiled themselves and were cast out of the race of the righteous, and became again as they had been before, or rather even worse.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:266 · 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. 9.17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/17/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/17/5/).

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