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Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 4.3.1 (31.1)

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

Summary: Some teachers say there is no repentance after baptism.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:82

Ἔτι, φημί, κύριε, προσθήσω τοῦ ἐπερωτῆσαι. Λέγε, φησίν. Ἤκουσα, φημί, κύριε, παρά τινων διδασκάλων, ὅτι ἑτέρα μετάνοια οὐκ ἔστιν εἰ μὴ ἐκείνη, ὅτε εἰς ὕδωρ κατέβημεν καὶ ἐλάβομεν ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν τῶν προτέρων.

English · Claude translation

“I will go further, sir,” I said, “and ask.” “Speak,” he said. “I have heard, sir,” I said, “from certain teachers, that there is no other repentance except that which took place when we went down into the water and received forgiveness of our former sins.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:82 · 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
Topics
Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Heb 6:4–6, often read in the early church as denying a second repentance.

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Herm. Mand. 4.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/1/).

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Herm. Mand. 4.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/1/).

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