Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 4.3.5 (31.5)

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

Summary: In mercy God appointed this repentance, entrusted to the Shepherd.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:84

πολύσπλαγχνος οὖν ὢν ὁ κύριος ἐσπλαγχνίσθη ἐπὶ τὴν ποίησιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔθηκεν τὴν μετάνοιαν ταύτην, καὶ ἐμοὶ ἡ ἐξουσία τῆς μετανοίας ταύτης ἐδόθη.

English · Claude translation

Being very merciful, then, the Lord had compassion on his creature and appointed this repentance, and to me the authority over this repentance was given.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:84 · 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. 4.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/5/).

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Herm. Mand. 4.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/5/).

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