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Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.6.3 (49.3)

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

Summary: Fear God who can save and destroy.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:136

ἀκούσατε οὖν μου καὶ φοβήθητε τὸν πάντα δυνάμενον, σῶσαι καὶ ἀπολέσαι, καὶ τηρεῖτε τὰς ἐντολὰς ταύτας, καὶ ζήσεσθε τῷ θεῷ.

English · Claude translation

Hear me, then, and fear him who is able to do all things, to save and to destroy, and keep these commandments, and you will live to God.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:136 · 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. 12.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/6/3/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/6/3/).

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