Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.31.2 (108.2)

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

Summary: Their worldliness must be cut away; none of this innocent race will perish.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:292

oportet autem circumcidi hoc saeculum ab illis et vanitates opum suarum, et tunc convenient in dei regnum. necesse est enim eos intrare in dei regnum; hoc enim genus innocuum benedixit dominus. ex hoc ergo genere non intercidet quisquam. etenim licet quis eorum temptatus a nequissimo diabolo aliquid deliquerit, cito recurret ad dominum suum.

English · Claude translation

This world and the vanities of their riches must be cut away from them, and then they will fit into the kingdom of God. For they must enter the kingdom of God; for the Lord has blessed this innocent race. From this race, then, no one will perish. For even if one of them, tempted by the most wicked devil, commits some fault, he will quickly run back to his Lord.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 25:292 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • Translated from the Latin.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 9.31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/31/2/).

Plain text
Herm. Sim. 9.31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/31/2/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage