Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 5.1.2 (33.2)

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

Summary: Patience keeps the Holy Spirit within joyful and unhindered.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:86

ἐὰν γὰρ μακρόθυμος ἔσῃ, τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον τὸ κατοικοῦν ἐν σοὶ καθαρὸν ἔσται, μὴ ἐπισκοτούμενον ὑπὸ ἑτέρου πονηροῦ πνεύματος, ἀλλʼ ἐν εὐρυχώρῳ κατοικοῦν ἀγαλλιάσεται καὶ εὐφρανθήσεται μετὰ τοῦ σκεύους, ἐν ᾧ κατοικεῖ, καὶ λειτουργήσει τῷ θεῷ ἐν ἱλαρότητι πολλῇ, ἔχον τὴν εὐθηνίαν ἐν ἑαυτῷ.

English · Claude translation

For if you are patient, the Holy Spirit who dwells in you will be pure, not darkened by another, evil spirit, but dwelling in a spacious place it will rejoice and be glad with the vessel in which it dwells, and will serve God with much cheerfulness, having well-being within itself.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:86 · 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. 5.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/1/2/).

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Herm. Mand. 5.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/1/2/).

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