Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.31.5 (108.5)

Summary: Woe to the shepherds if any sheep is lost.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:292

χαρήσεται δέ, ἐὰν πάντα ὑγιῆ εὑρεθῇ, καὶ μὴ διαπεπτωκότα ἐξ αὐτῶν. ἐὰν δὲ εὑρεθῇ τινα ἐξ αὐτῶν διαπεπτωκότα, οὐαὶ τοῖς ποιμέσιν ἔσται.

And he will rejoice if all are found sound, and none of them has fallen away. But if any of them is found to have fallen away, woe to the shepherds.

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: Church office

Herm. Sim. 9.31.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/31/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.31.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/31/5/).