Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.4.7 (47.7)

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

Summary: The angel of repentance will be with you; the devil will flee.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:132

ἐγὼ γὰρ ἔσομαι μεθʼ ὑμῶν, ὁ ἄγγελος τῆς μετανοίας ὁ κατακυριεύων αὐτοῦ. ὁ διάβολος μόνον φόβον ἔχει, ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ τόνον οὐκ ἔχει· μὴ φοβήθητε οὖν αὐτόν, καὶ φεύξεται ἀφʼ ὑμῶν.

English · Claude translation

For I will be with you, the angel of repentance who masters him. The devil has only fear, but his fear has no strength; do not fear him, then, and he will flee from 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)

Scripture

Jas 4:7 · allusion, medium confidence

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Herm. Mand. 12.4.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/7/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 12.4.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/7/).

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