Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.24.3 (101.3)

Summary: God blessed their work.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:278

ὁ οὖν κύριος ἰδὼν τὴν ἁπλότητα αὐτῶν καὶ πᾶσαν νηπιότητα ἐπλήθυνεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τοῖς κόποις τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐχαρίτωσεν αὐτοὺς ἐν πάσῃ πράξει αὐτῶν.

The Lord, then, seeing their simplicity and complete childlikeness, multiplied them in the labors of their hands and gave them favor in all they did.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:278 · 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.

Herm. Sim. 9.24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/24/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/24/3/).