Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.26.7 (103.7)

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

Summary: The beasts are slanderers whose words kill.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:282

καὶ οἱ κολοβοί, οὗτοι δόλιοί εἰσι καὶ κατάλαλοι· καὶ τὰ θηρία, ἃ εἶδες εἰς τὸ ὄρος, οὗτοί εἰσιν. ὥσπερ γὰρ τὰ θηρία διαφθείρει τῷ ἑαυτῶν ἰῷ τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἀπολλύει, οὕτω καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἀνθρώπων τὰ ῥήματα διαφθείρει τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἀπολλύει.

English · Claude translation

And those cut short are deceitful and slanderers; and they are the wild beasts that you saw on the mountain. For just as the beasts destroy a person with their poison and kill him, so also the words of such people destroy a person and kill him.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:282 · 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)

Scripture

Jas 3:8 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.26.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.26.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/7/).

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