Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 5.7.2 (60.2)

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

Summary: Defiling the flesh defiles the Spirit.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:168

βλέπε, μήποτε ἀναβῇ ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν σου τὴν σάρκα σου ταύτην φθαρτὴν εἶναι καὶ παραχρήσῃ αὐτῇ ἐν μιασμῷ τινί. ἐὰν μιάνῃς τὴν σάρκα σου, μιανεῖς καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· ἐὰν δὲ μιάνῃς τὴν σάρκα, οὐ ζήσῃ.

English · Claude translation

See that it never enters your heart that this flesh of yours is perishable, and that you misuse it in some defilement. If you defile your flesh, you will also defile the Holy Spirit; and if you defile the flesh, you will not live.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:168 · 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.
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Herm. Sim. 5.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 5.7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/5/7/2/).

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