Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.26.5 (103.5)

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

Summary: Those who did not deny from the heart may repent.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:282

τούτοις οὖν μετάνοια γίνεται, ἐὰν μὴ ἐκ καρδίας εὑρεθῶσιν ἠρνημένοι· ἐὰν δὲ ἐκ καρδίας εὑρεθῇ ἠρνημένος τις, οὐκ οἶδα, εἰ δύναται ζῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

For these, then, there is repentance, if they are not found to have denied from the heart; but if anyone is found to have denied from the heart, I do not know whether he can live.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:282 · 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. 9.26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/5/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/5/).

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