Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 1.2 (26.2)

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

Summary: Faith, fear of God, and self-control lead to life.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:70

πίστευσον οὖν αὐτῷ καὶ φοβήθητι αὐτόν, φοβηθεὶς δὲ ἐγκράτευσαι. ταῦτα φύλασσε, καὶ ἀποβαλεῖς πᾶσαν πονηρίαν ἀπὸ σεαυτοῦ καὶ ἐνδύσῃ πᾶσαν ἀρετὴν δικαιοσύνης καὶ ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ, ἐὰν φυλάξῃς τὴν ἐντολὴν ταύτην.

English · Claude translation

Believe him, then, and fear him, and in fearing him be self-controlled. Keep these things, and you will cast off all wickedness from yourself and put on every virtue of righteousness, and you will live to God, if you keep this commandment.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:70 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 70–137 · 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
Text: As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Topics: Ethics

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Herm. Mand. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/1/2/).

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Herm. Mand. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/1/2/).

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