Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 5.2.6 (34.6)

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

Summary: The Holy Spirit leaves the angry person.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:92

τὸ τρυφερὸν οὖν πνεῦμα, μὴ ἔχον συνήθειαν μετὰ πονηροῦ πνεύματος κατοικεῖν μηδὲ μετὰ σκληρότητος, ἀποχωρεῖ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ τοιούτου καὶ ζητεῖ κατοικεῖν μετὰ πραότητος καὶ ἡσυχίας.

English · Claude translation

The delicate spirit, then, not being used to dwelling with an evil spirit or with harshness, departs from such a person and seeks to dwell with gentleness and quietness.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:92 · 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. 5.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/2/6/).

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Herm. Mand. 5.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/2/6/).

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