Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 5.7 (25.7)

Summary: Keeping the commandments brings God's promises; the Shepherd is the angel of repentance.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:70

ἐὰν οὖν ἀκούσαντες αὐτὰς φυλάξητε καὶ ἐν αὐταῖς πορευθῆτε καὶ ἐργάσησθε αὐτὰς ἐν καθαρᾷ καρδίᾳ, ἀπολήμψεσθε ἀπὸ τοῦ κυρίου, ὅσα ἐπηγγείλατο ὑμῖν· ἐὰν δὲ ἀκούσαντες μὴ μετανοήσητε, ἀλλʼ ἔτι προσθῆτε ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν, ἀπολήμψεσθε παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου τὰ ἐναντία. ταῦτά μοι πάντα οὕτως γράψαι ὁ ποιμὴν ἐνετείλατο, ὁ ἄγγελος τῆς μετανοίας.

English · Claude translation

If, then, when you have heard them, you keep them and walk in them and do them with a pure heart, you will receive from the Lord all that he has promised you; but if, having heard them, you do not repent, but still add to your sins, you will receive the opposite from the Lord. All these things the shepherd, the angel of repentance, commanded me to write thus.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:70 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 6–71 · 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); made independently of existing English translations.

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/5/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/5/7/).