Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.2.3 (112.3)

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

Summary: Hermas proclaims God's works and hopes all will repent.

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Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:300

et ego, inquam, domine, omni homini indico magnalia domini; spero autem, quia omnes, qui antea peccaverunt, si haec audiant, libenter acturi sunt paenitentiam vitam recuperantes.

English · Claude translation

“And I, sir,” I said, “declare to every person the mighty works of the Lord; and I hope that all who have sinned before, if they hear these things, will gladly repent and recover life.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:300 · 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)

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Herm. Sim. 10.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/2/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 10.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/2/3/).

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