Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 4.3.7 (31.7)

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

Summary: Hermas is revived by the hope of salvation.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:84

λέγω αὐτῷ· Ἐζωοποιήθην ταῦτα παρὰ σοῦ ἀκούσας οὕτως ἀκριβῶς· οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι, ἐὰν μηκέτι προσθήσω ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις μου, σωθήσομαι. Σωθήσῃ, φησίν, καὶ πάντες, ὅσοι ἐὰν ταῦτα ποιήσωσιν.

English · Claude translation

I said to him, “I have been made alive by hearing these things from you so exactly; for I know that if I add no more to my sins, I shall be saved.” “You will be saved,” he said, “and so will all who do these things.”

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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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Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (a quotation follows)): λέγω αὐτῷ Ἐζωοποιήθην → λέγω αὐτῷ· Ἐζωοποιήθην.

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Herm. Mand. 4.3.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/7/).

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Herm. Mand. 4.3.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/4/3/7/).

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