Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 10.2.3 (41.3)

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

Summary: Sorrow after anger can lead to repentance.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:114

εἶτα πάλιν ἡ ὀξυχολία ὅταν κολληθῇ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ περὶ πράγματός τινος, καὶ λίαν πικρανθῇ, πάλιν ἡ λύπη εἰσπορεύεται εἰς τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ ὀξυχολήσαντος, καὶ λυπεῖται ἐπὶ τῇ πράξει αὐτοῦ ᾗ ἔπραξε καὶ μετανοεῖ, ὅτι πονηρὸν εἰργάσατο.

English · Claude translation

Then again, when bad temper attaches itself to a person about some matter, and he becomes very bitter, again sorrow enters into the heart of the person who lost his temper, and he is sorry for the deed he did and repents, because he did evil.

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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.

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Herm. Mand. 10.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/3/).

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Herm. Mand. 10.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/2/3/).

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