Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.6.1 (59.1)

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

Summary: The Son of God is not a slave but has great authority.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:166

Ἄκουε, φησίν· εἰς δούλου τρόπον οὐ κεῖται ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλʼ εἰς ἐξουσίαν μεγάλην κεῖται καὶ κυριότητα. Πῶς, φημί, κύριε, οὐ νοῶ.

English · Claude translation

“Hear,” he said: “the Son of God is not represented as a slave, but is represented in great authority and lordship.” “How, sir?” I said. “I do not understand.”

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:166 · 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)

Scripture

Phil 2:7 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

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Herm. Sim. 5.6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 5.6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/1/).

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