Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.10.2 (76.2)

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

Summary: Even their doubters have hope.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:212

τινὲς δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐδιψύχησαν, τινὲς δὲ διψυχήσαντες διχοστασίαν μείζονα ἐποίησαν. ἐν τούτοις οὖν ἔνεστι μετανοίας ἐλπίς, ὅτι ἀγαθοὶ πάντοτε ἐγένοντο· δυσκόλως δέ τις αὐτῶν ἀποθανεῖται.

English · Claude translation

But some of them were double-minded, and some, being double-minded, made a greater division. In these, then, there is hope of repentance, because they have always been good; it will be hard for any of them to die.

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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.

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Herm. Sim. 8.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/10/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/10/2/).

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