Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 5.2.1 (34.1)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:90

Ἄκουε νῦν, φησί, τὴν ἐνέργειαν τῆς ὀξυχολίας, πῶς πονηρά ἐστι, καὶ πῶς τοὺς δούλους μου καταστρέφει τῇ ἑαυτῆς ἐνεργείᾳ καὶ πῶς ἀποπλανᾷ αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς δικαιοσύνης. οὐκ ἀποπλανᾷ δὲ τοὺς πλήρεις ὄντας ἐν τῇ πίστει οὐδὲ ἐνεργῆσαι δύναται εἰς αὐτούς, ὅτι ἡ δύναμίς μου μετʼ αὐτῶν ἐστιν· ἀποπλανᾷ δὲ τοὺς ἀποκένους καὶ διψύχους ὄντας.

English · Claude translation

“Hear now,” he said, “the working of bad temper, how evil it is, and how it overthrows my servants by its working and leads them away from righteousness. But it does not lead astray those who are full in faith, nor can it work on them, because my power is with them; it leads astray those who are empty and double-minded.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:90 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): δούλους μοῦ → δούλους μου; ἡ δύναμις μου → ἡ δύναμίς μου.

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 5.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/2/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 5.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/2/1/).