Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 6.1.5 (35.5)

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

Summary: Whoever turns to the Lord will walk the straight way.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:94–96

Ἀρέσκει μοι, φημί, κύριε, ταύτῃ τῇ ὁδῷ πορεύεσθαι. Πορεύσῃ, φησί, καὶ ὃς ἂν ἐξ ὅλης καρδίας ἐπιστρέψῃ πρὸς κύριον, πορεύσεται ἐν αὐτῇ.

English · Claude translation

“It pleases me, sir,” I said, “to walk in this way.” “You will walk in it,” he said, “and whoever turns to the Lord with his whole heart will walk in it.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:94–96 · 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. 6.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/1/5/).

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Herm. Mand. 6.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/1/5/).

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