Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 6.1.2 (35.2)

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

Summary: Walk the straight way, not the crooked.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:94

σὺ οὖν πίστευε τῷ δικαίῳ, τῷ δὲ ἀδίκῳ μὴ πιστεύσῃς· τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον ὀρθὴν ὁδὸν ἔχει, τὸ δὲ ἄδικον στρεβλήν. ἀλλὰ σὺ τῇ ὀρθῇ ὁδῷ πορεύου καὶ ὁμαλῇ, τὴν δὲ στρεβλὴν ἔασον.

English · Claude translation

So you, trust what is righteous, but do not trust what is unrighteous; for what is righteous has a straight way, but what is unrighteous a crooked one. But you, walk in the straight and level way, and leave the crooked one.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:94 · 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. 6.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/1/2/).

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Herm. Mand. 6.1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/1/2/).

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