Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 9.2 (39.2)

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

Summary: Turn to God wholeheartedly and ask without hesitation.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:106

μὴ διαλογίζου ταῦτα, ἀλλʼ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας σου ἐπίστρεψον ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον καὶ αἰτοῦ παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἀδιστάκτως, καὶ γνώσῃ τὴν πολλὴν εὐσπλαγχνίαν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ, ἀλλὰ τὸ αἴτημα τῆς ψυχῆς σου πληροφορήσει.

English · Claude translation

Do not reason like this, but turn to the Lord with your whole heart and ask of him without hesitating, and you will know his great compassion, that he will never abandon you, but will fulfill the request of your soul.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:106 · 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)
Topics: Prayer

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Herm. Mand. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/2/).

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Herm. Mand. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/2/).

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