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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.32.4 (109.4)

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

Summary: God gave a whole spirit; he will punish those who ruin it.

Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:294

si sic igitur tu doles de vestimento tuo et quereris, quod non illud integrum recipias, quid putas dominum tibi facturum, qui spiritum integrum tibi dedit, et tu eum totum inutilem redegisti, ita ut in nullo usu esse possit domino suo? inutilis enim esse coepit usus eius, cum sit corruptus a te. nonne igitur dominus spiritus eius propter hoc factum tuum morte te adficiet?

English · Claude translation

If, then, you grieve so over your garment and complain that you do not receive it back whole, what do you think the Lord will do to you, who gave you the spirit whole, and you have made it wholly useless, so that it can be of no use to its Lord? For its use has become useless, since it has been corrupted by you. Will not, then, the Lord of that spirit punish you with death for this deed of yours?”

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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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  • Translated from the Latin.

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Herm. Sim. 9.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/4/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.32.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/4/).

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