Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 9.6 (39.6)

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

Summary: The wholehearted receive; the doubter is saved with difficulty.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:108

οἱ δὲ ὁλοτελεῖς ὄντες ἐν τῇ πίστει πάντα αἰτοῦνται πεποιθότες ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον καὶ λαμβάνουσιν, ὅτι ἀδιστάκτως αἰτοῦνται, μηδὲν διψυχοῦντες. πᾶς γὰρ δίψυχος ἀνήρ, ἐὰν μὴ μετανοήσῃ, δυσκόλως σωθήσεται.

English · Claude translation

But those who are complete in faith ask everything trusting in the Lord, and receive, because they ask without hesitating, not being double-minded at all. For every double-minded man, unless he repents, will be saved with difficulty.

About this passage

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)
Topics: Prayer

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Herm. Mand. 9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/6/).

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Herm. Mand. 9.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/6/).

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