Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.4.1 (47.1)

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

Summary: The Shepherd speaks angrily and Hermas is afraid.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:130

Καὶ ταῦτά μοι λίαν ὀργίλως ἐλάλησεν, ὥστε με συγχυθῆναι καὶ λίαν αὐτὸν φοβηθῆναι· ἡ μορφὴ γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἠλλοιώθη, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι ἄνθρωπον ὑπενεγκεῖν τὴν ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

And he said these things to me very angrily, so that I was confounded and greatly afraid of him; for his form was changed, so that a man could not bear his anger.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:130 · 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. 12.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/1/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/1/).

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