Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 6.2.10 (36.10)

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

Summary: Faith means trusting the good angel's works and refusing the evil angel's.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:98–100

τὰ μὲν περὶ τῆς πίστεως αὕτη ἡ ἐντολὴ δηλοῖ, ἵνα τοῖς ἔργοις τοῦ ἀγγέλου τῆς δικαιοσύνης πιστεύσῃς, καὶ ἐργασάμενος αὐτὰ ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ. πίστευε δέ, ὅτι τὰ ἔργα τοῦ ἀγγέλου τῆς πονηρίας χαλεπά ἐστι· μὴ ἐργαζόμενος οὖν αὐτὰ ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ.

English · Claude translation

This commandment makes clear what concerns faith, so that you may trust the works of the angel of righteousness, and by doing them live to God. But believe that the works of the angel of wickedness are harmful; by not doing them, then, you will live to God.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:98–100 · 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. 6.2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/2/10/).

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Herm. Mand. 6.2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/6/2/10/).

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