Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.6.4 (49.4)

Summary: Strengthened, Hermas hopes to keep the commandments.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:136

λέγω αὐτῷ· Κύριε, νῦν ἐνεδυναμώθην ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς δικαιώμασι τοῦ κυρίου, ὅτι σὺ μετʼ ἐμοῦ εἶ· καὶ οἶδα, ὅτι συγκόψεις τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ διαβόλου πᾶσαν καὶ ἡμεῖς αὐτοῦ κατακυριεύσομεν καὶ κατισχύσομεν πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐλπίζω, κύριε, δύνασθαί με τὰς ἐντολὰς ταύτας, ἃς ἐντέταλσαι, τοῦ κυρίου ἐνδυναμοῦντος φυλάξαι.

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “Sir, now I have been strengthened in all the ordinances of the Lord, because you are with me; and I know that you will crush all the power of the devil, and we shall master him and prevail over all his works. And I hope, sir, that I can keep these commandments that you have given, with the Lord strengthening me.”

About this passage

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)

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 12.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/6/4/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 12.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/6/4/).