Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.2.3 (45.3)

Summary: Those mastered by them die.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:126

ὅσοι δὲ ἂν κατακυριευθῶσιν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν καὶ μὴ ἀντισταθῶσιν αὐταῖς, ἀποθανοῦνται εἰς τέλος· θανατώδεις γάρ εἰσιν αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι αὗται.

But all who are mastered by them and do not resist them will die finally; for these desires are deadly.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:126 · 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. 12.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/2/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 12.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/2/3/).