Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.4.3 (64.3)

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

Summary: The Shepherd will explain.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:180

λέγει μοι· Ἄφρων εἶ καὶ οὐ νοεῖς τῆς βασάνου τὴν δύναμιν. Εἰ γὰρ ἐνόουν, φημί, κύριε, οὐκ ἂν ἐπηρώτων, ἵνα μοι δηλώσῃς. Ἄκουε, φησίν, ἀμφοτέρων τὴν δύναμιν.

English · Claude translation

He said to me, “You are foolish and do not understand the power of torment.” “If I understood, sir,” I said, “I would not have asked you to make it clear to me.” “Hear,” he said, “the power of both.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:180 · 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); digitization slip: a word was repeated): ἐπηρώτῳν → ἐπηρώτων; φησίν, φησίν, ἀμφοτέρων → φησίν, ἀμφοτέρων.

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Herm. Sim. 6.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/4/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 6.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/4/3/).

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