Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 10.2.4 (41.4)

Summary: Both doubt and anger grieve the Spirit.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:114

αὕτη οὖν ἡ λύπη δοκεῖ σωτηρίαν ἔχειν, ὅτι τὸ πονηρὸν πράξας μετενόησεν. ἀμφότεραι οὖν αἱ πράξεις λυποῦσι τὸ πνεῦμα· ἡ μὲν διψυχία, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπέτυχε τῆς πράξεως αὐτῆς, ἡ δὲ ὀξυχολία λυπεῖ τὸ πνεῦμα, ὅτι ἔπραξε τὸ πονηρόν. ἀμφότερα οὖν λυπηρά ἐστι τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ, ἡ διψυχία καὶ ἡ ὀξυχολία.

English · Claude translation

This sorrow, then, seems to bring salvation, because having done evil he repented. Both actions, then, grieve the Spirit: double-mindedness, because it did not succeed in its undertaking, and bad temper grieves the Spirit because it did evil. Both, then, are grievous to the Holy Spirit, double-mindedness and bad temper.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:114 · 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)

Scripture

2 Cor 7:10 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 10.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 10.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/4/).