Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.2.1 (62.1)

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

Summary: He is the angel of luxury and deceit.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:172

Καὶ λέγει μοι· Βλέπεις τὸν ποιμένα τοῦτον; Βλέπω, φημί, κύριε. Οὗτος, φησίν, ἄγγελος τρυφῆς καὶ ἀπάτης ἐστίν. οὗτος ἐκτρίβει τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν δούλων τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ καταστρέφει αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας, ἀπατῶν αὐτοὺς ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις ταῖς πονηραῖς, ἐν αἷς ἀπόλλυνται.

English · Claude translation

And he said to me, “Do you see this shepherd?” “I see him, sir,” I said. “This,” he said, “is the angel of luxury and deceit. He wears away the souls of God's servants and turns them away from the truth, deceiving them with the evil desires in which they perish.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:172 · 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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong vowel)): ταῖς ἐπιθομίαις → ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις.

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Herm. Sim. 6.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/2/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 6.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/2/1/).

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