Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 1.11 (50.11)

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

Summary: Do not covet; do your own work and be saved.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:142

τὴν δὲ ἰδίαν πολυτέλειαν πράσσετε, ἐν ᾗ δύνασθε χαρῆναι, καὶ μὴ παραχαράσσετε μηδὲ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου ἅψησθε μηδὲ ἐπιθυμεῖτε αὐτοῦ· πονηρὸν γάρ ἐστιν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμεῖν. τὸ δὲ σὸν ἔργον ἐργάζου, καὶ σωθήσῃ.

English · Claude translation

But practice your own extravagance, in which you can rejoice; and do not counterfeit, nor touch what belongs to another, nor desire it; for it is evil to desire what belongs to others. But do your own work, and you will be saved.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:142 · 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
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.
Topics: Ethics

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Herm. Sim. 1.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/1/11/).

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Herm. Sim. 1.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/1/11/).

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