Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.28.5 (105.5)

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

Summary: Sufferers should glorify God, who counts them worthy.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:286

βλέπετε οὖν ὑμεῖς οἱ ταῦτα βουλευόμενοι, μήποτε ἡ βουλὴ αὕτη διαμείνῃ ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν καὶ ἀποθάνητε τῷ θεῷ. ὑμεῖς δὲ οἱ πάσχοντες ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματος δοξάζειν ὀφείλετε τὸν θεόν, ὅτι ἀξίους ὑμᾶς ἡγήσατο ὁ θεός, ἵνα τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα βαστάζητε καὶ πᾶσαι ὑμῶν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἰαθῶσιν.

English · Claude translation

Take care, then, you who are considering these things, lest this plan remain in your hearts and you die to God. But you who suffer for the name ought to glorify God, that God counted you worthy to bear this name and that all your sins might be healed.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:286 · 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.

Scripture

Acts 5:41 · echo, medium confidence
1 Pet 4:16 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

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Herm. Sim. 9.28.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/28/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.28.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/28/5/).

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