Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 11.16 (43.16)

Summary: Test by works and life.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:122

ἔχεις ἀμφοτέρων τῶν προφητῶν τὴν ζωήν. δοκίμαζε οὖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων καὶ τῆς ζωῆς τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν λέγοντα ἑαυτὸν πνευματοφόρον εἶναι.

You have the life of both prophets. Test, then, by his works and his life the man who says he is inspired by the Spirit.

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)

Herm. Mand. 11.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/16/).

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Herm. Mand. 11.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/16/).