Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 11.8 (43.8)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:120

πρῶτον μὲν ὁ ἔχων τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἄνωθεν πραΰς ἐστι καὶ ἡσύχιος καὶ ταπεινόφρων καὶ ἀπεχόμενος ἀπὸ πάσης πονηρίας καὶ ἐπιθυμίας ματαίας τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ ἑαυτὸν ἐνδεέστερον ποιεῖ πάντων τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ οὐδενὶ οὐδὲν ἀποκρίνεται ἐπερωτώμενος, οὐδὲ καταμόνας λαλεῖ, οὐδὲ ὅταν θέλῃ ἄνθρωπος λαλεῖν, λαλεῖ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, ἀλλὰ τότε λαλεῖ, ὅταν θελήσῃ αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸς λαλῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

First, the one who has the Spirit from above is gentle and quiet and humble-minded, and abstains from all wickedness and vain desire of this world, and makes himself poorer than all people, and gives no answer to anyone when consulted, nor does he speak in private, nor does the Holy Spirit speak when a man wishes to speak, but it speaks when God wishes him to speak.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:120 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ἡσύχιος και ταπεινόφρων → ἡσύχιος καὶ ταπεινόφρων.

Cite this passage

Herm. Mand. 11.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/8/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 11.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/11/8/).