Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 6.3.5 (63.5)

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

Summary: Many blame God for failures caused by their own sins.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:176–178

πολλοὶ γὰρ ἀκαταστατοῦντες ταῖς βουλαῖς αὐτῶν ἐπιβάλλονται πολλά, καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς ὅλως προχωρεῖ. καὶ λέγουσιν ἑαυτοὺς μὴ εὐοδοῦσθαι ἐν ταῖς πράξεσιν αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἀναβαίνει αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν, ὅτι ἔπραξαν πονηρὰ ἔργα, ἀλλʼ αἰτιῶνται τὸν κύριον.

English · Claude translation

For many, being unstable in their plans, undertake many things, and nothing at all succeeds for them. And they say that they do not prosper in their undertakings, and it does not enter their heart that they have done evil deeds, but they blame the Lord.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:176–178 · 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. 6.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/3/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 6.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/6/3/5/).

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