Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.2.4 (112.4)

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:300

permane ergo, inquit, in hoc ministerio et consumma illud. quicumque autem mandata huius efficiunt, habebunt vitam, et hic apud dominum magnum honorem. quicumque vero huius mandata non servant, fugiunt a sua vita et illum adversus; nec mandata eius sequuntur, sed morti se tradunt et unusquisque eorum reus fit sanguinis sui. tibi autem dico, ut servias mandatis his, et remedium peccatorum habebis.

English · Claude translation

“Continue, then,” he said, “in this ministry and complete it. Whoever carries out his commandments will have life, and will have great honor with the Lord. But whoever does not keep his commandments flees from his own life and opposes him; they do not follow his commandments, but hand themselves over to death, and each of them becomes guilty of his own blood. But I tell you to serve these commandments, and you will have healing for your sins.

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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: letters misread; soft hyphen left inside a word in the digital text): consuinma → consumma; ilium adversus → illum adversus; servant → servant.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 10.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/2/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 10.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/2/4/).