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Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 9.4 (39.4)

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

Summary: Ask without doubting and you will lack nothing.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:108

σὺ οὖν καθάρισόν σου τὴν καρδίαν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ματαιωμάτων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ τῶν προειρημένων σοι ῥημάτων καὶ αἰτοῦ παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ ἀπολήψῃ πάντα καὶ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν αἰτημάτων σου ἀνυστέρητος ἔσῃ, ἐὰν ἀδιστάκτως αἰτήσῃς παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου.

English · Claude translation

So you, cleanse your heart from all the vanities of this world and from the things I have already spoken of to you, and ask of the Lord, and you will receive everything and will lack nothing of all your requests, if you ask of the Lord without hesitating.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:108 · 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. 9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/4/).

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Herm. Mand. 9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/4/).

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