Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 11.9 (43.9)

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

Summary: The true prophet speaks in the assembly when filled with the Spirit.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:120

ὅταν οὖν ἔλθῃ ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ ἔχων τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ θεῖον εἰς συναγωγὴν ἀνδρῶν δικαίων τῶν ἐχόντων πίστιν θείου πνεύματος καὶ ἔντευξις γένηται πρὸς τὸν θεὸν τῆς συναγωγῆς τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐκείνων, τότε ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ προφητικοῦ πνεύματος ὁ κείμενος πρὸς αὐτὸν πληροῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, καὶ πληρωθεὶς ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ λαλεῖ εἰς τὸ πλῆθος, καθὼς ὁ κύριος βούλεται.

English · Claude translation

When, then, the man who has the divine Spirit comes into an assembly of righteous men who have faith in a divine Spirit, and prayer is made to God by the assembly of those men, then the angel of the prophetic spirit who is assigned to him fills the man, and the man, filled with the Holy Spirit, speaks to the congregation as the Lord wishes.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 25:120 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Assembly” (συναγωγή): the gathered church.

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Herm. Mand. 11.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/9/).

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Herm. Mand. 11.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/9/).

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