Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 7.5 (37.5)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:100–102

Διατί, φημί, κύριε, εἶπας περὶ τῶν τηρούντων τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ· Ζήσονται τῷ θεῷ; Ὅτι, φησίν, πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις φοβεῖται τὸν κύριον, τὰς δὲ ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ οὐ φυλάσσει. τῶν οὖν φοβουμένων αὐτὸν καὶ φυλασσόντων τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, ἐκείνων ἡ ζωή ἐστι παρὰ τῷ θεῷ· τῶν δὲ μὴ φυλασσόντων τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, οὐδὲ ζωὴ ἐν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

“Why, sir,” I said, “did you say of those who keep his commandments, ‘They will live to God’?” “Because,” he said, “all creation fears the Lord, but does not keep his commandments. Those, then, who fear him and keep his commandments have life with God; but those who do not keep his commandments have no life in him either.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:100–102 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text): τὸν κύριον τὰς δὲ ἐντολὰς → τὸν κύριον, τὰς δὲ ἐντολὰς.

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/7/5/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/7/5/).