Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.23.2 (100.2)

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

Summary: Small cracks: minor grudges and slander; they will repent.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:276

οἱ μὲν τὰς σχισμὰς τὰς μικρὰς ἔχοντες, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ κατʼ ἀλλήλων ἔχοντες, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν καταλαλιῶν ἑαυτῶν μεμαραμμένοι εἰσὶν ἐν τῇ πίστει· ἀλλὰ μετενόησαν ἐκ τούτων πολλοί. καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ δὲ μετανοήσουσιν, ὅταν ἀκούσωσί μου τὰς ἐντολάς· μικραὶ γὰρ αὐτῶν εἰσιν αἱ καταλαλιαί, καὶ ταχὺ μετανοήσουσιν.

English · Claude translation

Those who have the small cracks are those who hold things against one another, and from their slanders they are withered in the faith; but many of them have repented. And the rest will repent when they hear my commandments; for their slanders are small, and they will repent quickly.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:276 · 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. 9.23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/23/2/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/23/2/).

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