Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.32.2 (109.2)

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

Summary: Return your spirit to God whole, as you received it.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:294

dominus habitat in viris amantibus pacem; ei enimvero pax cara est; a litigiosis vero et perditis malitiae longe abest. reddite igitur ei spiritum integrum, sicut accepistis.

English · Claude translation

The Lord dwells in men who love peace; for peace is dear to him indeed; but he is far from the quarrelsome and those ruined by malice. Give back to him, then, the spirit whole, as you received it.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:294 · 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)
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Herm. Sim. 9.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/2/).

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