Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10.3.2 (113.2)

Summary: The virtues remain only in a pure house.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:302

tu tantum communda domum tuam; in munda enim domo libenter habitabunt; mundae enim sunt atque castae et industriae et omnes habentes gratiam apud dominum. igitur si habuerint domum tuam puram, tecum permanebunt. sin autem pusillum aliquid inquinationis acciderit, protinus a domo tua recedent; hae enim virgines nullum omnino diligunt inquinationem.

English · Claude translation

Only keep your house clean; for they will gladly live in a clean house; for they are clean and chaste and industrious and all have favor with the Lord. So if they find your house pure, they will remain with you. But if even a little defilement occurs, they will at once leave your house; for these virgins love no defilement at all.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:302 · 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)

Topics

Ethics

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 10.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 10.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/10/3/2/).