Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 10.3.4 (42.4)

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

Summary: Cast off sorrow and live.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:116

καθάρισον οὖν σεαυτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς λύπης τῆς πονηρᾶς ταύτης, καὶ ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ· καὶ πάντες ζήσονται τῷ θεῷ, ὅσοι ἂν ἀποβάλωσιν ἀφʼ ἑαυτῶν τὴν λύπην καὶ ἐνδύσωνται πᾶσαν ἱλαρότητα.

English · Claude translation

Cleanse yourself, then, from this evil sorrow, and you will live to God; and all will live to God who cast off sorrow from themselves and put on all cheerfulness.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:116 · 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)

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Herm. Mand. 10.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/3/4/).

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Herm. Mand. 10.3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/3/4/).

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