Hermas, The Shepherd of Hermas, ed. Kirsopp Lake, 10.1.5

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[5] ἐὰν γὰρ λάβῃς ἀψινθίου μικρὸν λίαν καὶ εἰς κεράμιον μέλιτος ἐπιχέῃς, οὐχὶ ὅλον τὸ μέλι ἀφανίζεται, καὶ τοσοῦτον μέλι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐλαχίστου ἀψινθίου ἀπόλλυται καὶ ἀπόλλυσι τὴν γλυκύτητα τοῦ μέλιτος, καὶ οὐκέτι τὴν αὐτὴν χάριν ἔχει παρὰ τῷ δεσπότῃ, ὅτι ἐπικράνθη καὶ τὴν χρῆσιν αὐτοῦ ἀπώλεσεν; ἐὰν δὲ εἰς τὸ μέλι μὴ βληθῇ τὸ ἀψίνθιον, γλυκὺ εὑρίσκεται τὸ μέλι καὶ εὔχρηστον γίνεται τῷ δεσπότῃ αὐτοῦ. ¹

The Shepherd of Hermas. Hermas. ed. Kirsopp Lake. London. 1917.

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Ποιμὴν (Greek) (Hermas. The Apostolic Fathers, Vol 2. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917.)

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Hermas Perseus (Hermas. The Apostolic Fathers with an English translation by Kirsopp Lake. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1913) — 10.1.5 focus

[5] For if you take a little wormwood, and pour into it a jar of honey, is not the whole honey spoilt? And a great quantity of honey is ruined by a very little wormwood, and it spoils the sweetness of the honey, and it has no longer the same favour with the master, because it has been mixed and he has lost its use. But if no wormwood be put into the honey, the honey is found to be sweet, and becomes valuable to the master.

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The Shepherd of Hermas

1. The text of this passage is reconstructed thus by the editors from LE Ant. A reads a)fani/zetai, kai\ pikro\n gi/netai kai\ a)pollu/ei th\n gluku/thta tou= me/litos kai\ ou)ke/ti th\n au)th\n xa/rin e)/kei para\ tw=| despo/th| o(/ti e)pikra/nqh kai\ th\n xrh=sin au)tou= a)pw/lesen, e)a\n de\ e)pi\ to\ a)yi/nqion mh\ blhqh=| me/li, ou)de\ e)pi\ to\ a)yi/nqion mh\ blhqh=| me/li ou)de\ eu)/xrhston gi/netai tw=| despo/th| au)tou=. This of course is hopelessly corrupt, but it seems to point to a shorter text.

Hermas The Shepherd of Hermas 10.1.5

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