Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 3.1 (28.1)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:74

Πάλιν μοι λέγει· Ἀλήθειαν ἀγάπα καὶ πᾶσα ἀλήθεια ἐκ τοῦ στόματός σου ἐκπορευέσθω, ἵνα τὸ πνεῦμα, ὃ ὁ θεὸς κατῴκισεν ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ ταύτῃ, ἀληθὲς εὑρεθῇ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις, καὶ οὕτως δοξασθήσεται ὁ κύριος ὁ ἐν σοὶ κατοικῶν, ὅτι ὁ κύριος ἀληθινὸς ἐν παντὶ ῥήματι καὶ οὐδὲν παρʼ αὐτῷ ψεῦδος.

English · Claude translation

Again he said to me, “Love truth, and let all truth come out of your mouth, so that the spirit that God has made to dwell in this flesh may be found true before all people; and so the Lord who dwells in you will be glorified, because the Lord is true in every word, and there is no falsehood in him.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:74 · 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)

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): τὸ πνεῦμα. ὃ ὁ θεὸς → τὸ πνεῦμα, ὃ ὁ θεὸς.

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/3/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/3/1/).