Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.6.7 (59.7)

Summary: All flesh that keeps the Spirit pure will receive a reward.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:168

σύμβουλον οὖν ἔλαβε τὸν υἱὸν καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους τοὺς ἐνδόξους, ἵνα καὶ ἡ σὰρξ αὕτη, δουλεύσασα τῷ πνεύματι ἀμέμπτως, σχῇ τόπον τινὰ κατασκηνώσεως καὶ μὴ δόξῃ τὸν μισθὸν τῆς δουλείας αὐτῆς ἀπολωλεκέναι· πᾶσα γὰρ σὰρξ ἀπολήψεται μισθὸν ἡ εὑρεθεῖσα ἀμίαντος καὶ ἄσπιλος, ἐν ᾗ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον κατῴκησεν.

English · Claude translation

He took the Son and the glorious angels as counselors, then, so that this flesh also, having served the Spirit blamelessly, might have some place to dwell and not seem to have lost the reward of its service; for all flesh in which the Holy Spirit has dwelt, if it is found undefiled and spotless, will receive a reward.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:168 · 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

Christology, Eschatology

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 5.6.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 5.6.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/6/7/).