Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.25.2 (102.2)

Summary: The springs are the apostles and teachers who taught purely; their place is with the angels.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:280

ἀπόστολοι καὶ διδάσκαλοι οἱ κηρύξαντες εἰς ὅλον τὸν κόσμον καὶ οἱ διδάξαντες σεμνῶς καὶ ἁγνῶς τὸν λόγον τοῦ κυρίου καὶ μηδὲν ὅλως νοσφισάμενοι εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν πονηράν, ἀλλὰ πάντοτε ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ πορευθέντες, καθὼς καὶ παρέλαβον τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. τῶν τοιούτων οὖν ἡ πάροδος μετὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων ἐστίν.

English · Claude translation

apostles and teachers who preached to the whole world and who taught the word of the Lord reverently and purely, and did not misappropriate anything at all for evil desire, but always walked in righteousness and truth, as they had received the Holy Spirit. The passage of such people, then, is with the angels.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:280 · 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

Church office

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/25/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/25/2/).