Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.31.4 (108.4)

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

Summary: The baptized must keep simplicity, forgive offenses, and heal divisions.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:292

dico autem omnibus, vobis, quicumque sigillum hoc accepistis, simplicitatem habere neque offensarum memores esse neque in malitia vestra permanere aut in memoria offensarum amaritudinis, in unum quemque spiritum fieri et has malas scissuras permediare ac tollere a vobis, ut dominus pecorum gaudeat de his.

English · Claude translation

And I say to all of you who have received this seal: have simplicity, and do not remember offenses, nor remain in your malice or in the memory of the bitterness of offenses; become each one of one spirit, and heal these evil divisions and take them away from you, so that the lord of the flocks may rejoice over them.

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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)
Topics
Baptism, Ethics

Notes

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Herm. Sim. 9.31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/31/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.31.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/31/4/).

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