Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.32.5 (109.5)

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

Summary: Do not trample God's patience; repent.

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Latin text · Lake, LCL 25:294–296

plane, inquam, omnes eos, quoscumque invenerit in memoria offensarum permanere, adficiet. clementiam, inquit, eius calcare nolite, sed potius honorificate eum; quod tam patiens est ad delicta vestra et non est sicut vos. agite enim paenitentiam utilem vobis.

English · Claude translation

“Certainly,” I said, “he will punish all whom he finds persisting in remembering offenses.” “Do not trample on his mercy,” he said, “but rather honor him, because he is so patient with your sins and is not like you. Do, then, the repentance that is useful to you.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:294–296 · 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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Digital text corrected (Latin decoded from Greek letters: letters misread): pernianere → permanere; clenientiam → clementiam; tarn patiens → tam patiens.

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Herm. Sim. 9.32.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.32.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/32/5/).

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