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Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.4.5 (47.5)

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

Summary: With the Lord in the heart, nothing is easier than these commands.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:132

θέσθε οὖν ὑμεῖς, οἱ κενοὶ καὶ ἐλαφροὶ ὄντες ἐν τῇ πίστει, τὸν κύριον ὑμῶν εἰς τὴν καρδίαν, καὶ γνώσεσθε, ὅτι οὐδέν ἐστιν εὐκοπώτερον τῶν ἐντολῶν τούτων οὔτε γλυκύτερον οὔτε ἡμερώτερον.

English · Claude translation

Put, then, you who are empty and light in the faith, your Lord into your heart, and you will know that nothing is easier than these commandments, nor sweeter, nor gentler.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:132 · 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. 12.4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/5/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/5/).

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