Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 11.1 (43.1)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:116–118

Ἔδειξέ μοι ἐπὶ συμψελλίου καθημένους ἀνθρώπους καὶ ἕτερον ἄνθρωπον καθήμενον ἐπὶ καθέδραν, καὶ λέγει μοι· Βλέπεις τοὺς ἐπὶ τοῦ συμψελλίου καθημένους; Βλέπω, φημί, κύριε. Οὗτοι, φησί, πιστοί εἰσι, καὶ ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τὴν καθέδραν ψευδοπροφήτης ἐστίν, ὃς ἀπόλλυσι τὴν διάνοιαν τῶν δούλων τοῦ θεοῦ· τῶν διψύχων δὲ ἀπόλλυσιν, οὐ τῶν πιστῶν.

English · Claude translation

He showed me people sitting on a bench and another man sitting on a chair, and he said to me, “Do you see those sitting on the bench?” “I see them, sir,” I said. “These,” he said, “are faithful, and the one sitting on the chair is a false prophet, who destroys the understanding of God's servants; he destroys that of the double-minded, not of the faithful.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:116–118 · 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.

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Mandate 11 gives tests for telling true prophets from false, comparable to Did. 11.7–12.

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/1/).