Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 9.5 (39.5)

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

Summary: The doubter receives nothing.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:108

ἐὰν δὲ διστάσῃς ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, οὐδὲν οὐ μὴ λήψῃ τῶν αἰτημάτων σου. οἱ γὰρ διστάζοντες εἰς τὸν θεόν, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ δίψυχοι καὶ οὐδὲν ὅλως ἐπιτυγχάνουσι τῶν αἰτημάτων αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

But if you hesitate in your heart, you will receive none of your requests. For those who hesitate toward God are the double-minded, and they obtain none of their requests at all.

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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)

Scripture

Jas 1:7 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Prayer

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Herm. Mand. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/5/).

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Herm. Mand. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/5/).

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