Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 4.3.2 (31.2)

Summary: The baptized ought not to sin again.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:82

λέγει μοι· Καλῶς ἤκουσας· οὕτω γὰρ ἔχει. ἔδει γὰρ τὸν εἰληφότα ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν μηκέτι ἁμαρτάνειν, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἁγνείᾳ κατοικεῖν.

He said to me, “You have heard rightly; for so it is. For the one who has received forgiveness of sins ought to sin no more, but to live in purity.

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)
Topics: Baptism

Herm. Mand. 4.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/2/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 4.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/2/).