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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.23.4 (100.4)

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

Summary: If God forgives those who confess, how can a sinner hold a grudge?

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:276

εἰ ὁ θεὸς καὶ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν ὁ πάντων κυριεύων καὶ ἔχων πάσης τῆς κτίσεως αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐξουσίαν οὐ μνησικακεῖ τοῖς ἐξομολογουμένοις τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν, ἀλλʼ ἵλεως γίνεται, ἄνθρωπος φθαρτὸς ὢν καὶ πλήρης ἁμαρτιῶν ἀνθρώπῳ μνησικακεῖ ὡς δυνάμενος ἀπολέσαι ἢ σῶσαι αὐτόν;

English · Claude translation

If God and our Lord, who rules over all and has authority over all his creation, bears no grudge against those who confess their sins, but is merciful, does a man, who is mortal and full of sins, bear a grudge against a man, as though he could destroy or save him?

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Lake, LCL 25:276 · 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. 9.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/23/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/23/4/).

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