Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.1.2 (54.2)

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

Summary: Hermas fasts as he is used to.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:152

Τί, φησίν, ἐστὶ στατίων; Νηστεύω, φημί, κύριε. Νηστεία δὲ, φησί, τί ἐστιν αὕτη, ἣν νηστεύετε; Ὡς εἰώθειν, φημί, κύριε, οὕτω νηστεύω.

English · Claude translation

“What,” he said, “is a station?” “I am fasting, sir,” I said. “And what is this fast,” he said, “that you are keeping?” “As I have been accustomed, sir,” I said, “so I fast.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:152 · 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: Fasting

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Herm. Sim. 5.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/1/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/1/2/).

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