Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 6.1.3 (35.3)

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

Summary: The crooked way is rough and harmful.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:94

ἡ γὰρ στρεβλὴ ὁδὸς τρίβους οὐκ ἔχει, ἀλλʼ ἀνοδίας καὶ προσκόμματα πολλὰ καὶ τραχεῖά ἐστι καὶ ἀκανθώδης. βλαβερὰ οὖν ἐστι τοῖς ἐν αὐτῇ πορευομένοις.

English · Claude translation

For the crooked way has no paths, but pathless places and many stumbling blocks, and it is rough and thorny. It is harmful, then, to those who walk in it.

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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. 6.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/1/3/).

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Herm. Mand. 6.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/1/3/).

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