Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.7.2 (73.2)

Summary: Doubting slanderers may still repent.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:206

οἱ δὲ ἡμιξήρους ἔχοντες καὶ ἐν αὐταῖς σχισμάς, οὗτοι καὶ δίψυχοι καὶ κατάλαλοί εἰσι καὶ μηδέποτε εἰρηνεύοντες εἰς ἑαυτούς, ἀλλὰ διχοστατοῦντες πάντοτε. ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτοις, φησίν, ἐπίκειται μετάνοια. βλέπεις, φησί, τινὰς ἐξ αὐτῶν μετανενοηκότας. καὶ ἔτι, φησίν, ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐλπὶς μετανοίας.

English · Claude translation

And those who had them half-dry and with cracks in them are both double-minded and slanderers, and never at peace among themselves, but always causing divisions. But for these too,” he said, “repentance is laid down. You see,” he said, “that some of them have repented. And there is still,” he said, “hope of repentance among them.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:206 · 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)

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 8.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/7/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/7/2/).