Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 10.2.5 (41.5)

Summary: Do not afflict the Holy Spirit within you.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:114

ἆρον οὖν ἀπὸ σεαυτοῦ τὴν λύπην καὶ μὴ θλῖβε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον τὸ ἐν σοὶ κατοικοῦν, μήποτε ἐντεύξηται τῷ θεῷ καὶ ἀποστῇ ἀπὸ σοῦ.

Remove, then, sorrow from yourself, and do not afflict the Holy Spirit who dwells in you, lest he intercede with God against you and depart from you.

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)

Herm. Mand. 10.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/5/).

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Herm. Mand. 10.2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/5/).