Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.1.2 (111.2)

Summary: Walk in the Shepherd's commandments and be protected.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:298

tradidi te, inquit, et domum tuam huic pastori, ut ab eo protegi possis. ita, inquam, domine. si vis ergo protegi, inquit, ab omni vexatione et ab omni saevitia, successum autem habere in omni opere bono atque verbo et omnem virtutem aequitatis, in mandatis huius ingredere, quae dedi tibi, et poteris dominari omni nequitiae.

English · Claude translation

“I handed you and your household over to this shepherd,” he said, “so that you might be protected by him.” “Yes, sir,” I said. “If, then, you wish to be protected,” he said, “from all trouble and all cruelty, and to have success in every good work and word and every virtue of fairness, walk in his commandments, which I have given you, and you will be able to master all wickedness.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:298 · 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

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

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.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 10.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/1/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 10.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/1/2/).