Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.10.1 (76.1)

Summary: Good people with small faults repented quickly.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:212

Οἱ δὲ τὰς ῥάβδους ἐπιδεδωκότες χλωράς, αὐτὰ δὲ τὰ ἄκρα ξηρὰ καὶ σχισμὰς ἔχοντα, οὗτοι πάντοτε ἀγαθοὶ καὶ πιστοὶ καὶ ἔνδοξοι παρὰ τῷ θεῷ ἐγένοντο, ἐλάχιστον δὲ ἐξήμαρτον διὰ μικρὰς ἐπιθυμίας καὶ μικρὰ κατʼ ἀλλήλων ἔχοντες· ἀλλʼ ἀκούσαντές μου τῶν ῥημάτων τὸ πλεῖστον μέρος ταχὺ μετενόησαν, καὶ ἐγένετο ἡ κατοικία αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν πύργον.

English · Claude translation

Those who gave in their sticks green, but with the tips themselves dry and with cracks, have always been good and faithful and glorious before God, but they sinned a very little because of small desires and having small grievances against one another. But when they heard my words, most of them quickly repented, and their dwelling was in the tower.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:212 · 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. 8.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/10/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 8.10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/10/1/).