Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.1.4 (61.4)

Summary: Cast off wickedness and keep the commandments.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:170–172

οἱ οὖν μετανοοῦντες ἀποβάλλετε τὰς πονηρίας τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου τὰς ἐκτριβούσας ὑμᾶς· ἐνδυσάμενοι δὲ πᾶσαν ἀρετὴν δικαιοσύνης δυνήσεσθε τηρῆσαι τὰς ἐντολὰς ταύτας καὶ μηκέτι προστιθέναι ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν. πορεύεσθε οὖν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς μου ταύταις, καὶ ζήσεσθε τῷ θεῷ. ταῦτα πάντα παρʼ ἐμοῦ λελάληται ὑμῖν.

English · Claude translation

You who repent, then, cast off the wicked things of this world that wear you away; and putting on every virtue of righteousness, you will be able to keep these commandments and no longer add to your sins. Walk, then, in these commandments of mine, and you will live to God. All these things have been spoken to you by me.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:170–172 · 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.

Cite this passage

Herm. Sim. 6.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 6.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/1/4/).