Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.4.6 (47.6)

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

Summary: Turn from the devil's hard commands; he has no power over you.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:132

ἐπιστράφητε ὑμεῖς οἱ ταῖς ἐντολαῖς πορευόμενοι τοῦ διαβόλου, ταῖς δυσκόλοις καὶ πικραῖς καὶ ἀγρίαις καὶ ἀσελγέσι, καὶ μὴ φοβήθητε τὸν διάβολον, ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ δύναμις οὐκ ἔστιν καθʼ ὑμῶν·

English · Claude translation

Turn, you who walk in the commandments of the devil, which are difficult and bitter and wild and licentious, and do not fear the devil, because there is no power in him against you.

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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. 12.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/6/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.4.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/6/).

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