Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.8.2 (74.2)

Summary: Some repented; others denied the Lord for business and are lost.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:208–210

πολλοὶ οὖν ἀκούσαντές μου τῶν ἐντολῶν μετενόησαν. ὅσοι γοῦν μετενόησαν, ἡ κατοικία αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν πύργον. τινὲς δὲ αὐτῶν εἰς τέλος ἀπέστησαν. οὗτοι οὖν μετάνοιαν οὐκ ἔχουσιν· διὰ γὰρ τὰς πραγματείας αὐτῶν ἐβλασφήμησαν τὸν κύριον καὶ ἀπηρνήσαντο. ἀπώλεσαν οὖν τὴν ζωὴν αὐτῶν διὰ τὴν πονηρίαν, ἣν ἔπραξαν.

English · Claude translation

Many, then, when they heard my commandments, repented. Those, then, who repented have their dwelling in the tower. But some of them finally fell away. These, then, have no repentance; for because of their business affairs they blasphemed the Lord and denied him. They have lost their life, then, because of the wickedness they did.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:208–210 · 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

Persecution

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 8.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/8/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/8/2/).