Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.3.9 (56.9)

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

Summary: Those who keep this fast will be blessed.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:160

ταῦτα οὕτω τηρήσεις σὺ μετὰ τῶν τέκνων σου καὶ ὅλου τοῦ οἴκου σου· τηρήσας δὲ αὐτὰ μακάριος ἔσῃ· καὶ ὅσοι ἂν ἀκούσαντες αὐτὰ τηρήσωσι, μακάριοι ἔσονται, καὶ ὅσα ἂν αἰτήσωνται παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου λήψονται.

English · Claude translation

These things you shall keep thus, with your children and your whole household; and keeping them you will be blessed; and all who hear them and keep them will be blessed, and whatever they ask of the Lord they will receive.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:160 · 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. 5.3.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/3/9/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.3.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/3/9/).

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