Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.14.1 (91.1)

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

Summary: Can they return if they repent?

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:256

Τί οὖν, φημί, κύριε, ἐὰν οὗτοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι, τοιοῦτοι ὄντες, μετανοήσωσι καὶ ἀποβάλωσι τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῶν γυναικῶν τούτων, καὶ ἐπανακάμψωσιν ἐπὶ τὰς παρθένους καὶ ἐν τῇ δυνάμει αὐτῶν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτῶν πορευθῶσιν, οὐκ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ θεοῦ;

English · Claude translation

“What, then, sir,” I said, “if these people, being such, repent and cast off the desires of these women, and return to the virgins and walk in their power and in their works, will they not enter the house of God?”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:256 · 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. 9.14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/14/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/14/1/).

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