Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 11.14 (43.14)

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

Summary: In the praying assembly the false prophet is struck dumb.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:122

ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ εἰς συναγωγὴν πλήρη ἀνδρῶν δικαίων ἐχόντων πνεῦμα θεότητος καὶ ἔντευξις ἀπʼ αὐτῶν γένηται, κενοῦται ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος, καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐπίγειον ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου φεύγει ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κωφοῦται ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος καὶ ὅλως συνθραύεται, μηδὲν δυνάμενος λαλῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

But when he comes into an assembly full of righteous men who have the Spirit of the divine nature, and prayer is made by them, that man is emptied, and the earthly spirit flees from him in fear, and that man is struck dumb and altogether broken, unable to say anything.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:122 · 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: Prayer

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Herm. Mand. 11.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/14/).

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Herm. Mand. 11.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/14/).

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