Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 10.2.1 (41.1)

Summary: How sorrow harms and saves.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:114

Ἄκουε οὖν, φησίν, ἀνόητε, πῶς ἡ λύπη ἐκτρίβει τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον καὶ πάλιν σώζει·

Hear, then, foolish one,” he said, “how sorrow crushes out the Holy Spirit and again saves.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:114 · 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
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.

Herm. Mand. 10.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 10.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/1/).