Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.3.2 (46.2)

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

Summary: The twelve commandments are complete.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:128

συνετέλεσεν οὖν τὰς ἐντολὰς τὰς δώδεκα καὶ λέγει μοι· Ἔχεις τὰς ἐντολὰς ταύτας· πορεύου ἐν αὐταῖς καὶ τοὺς ἀκούοντας παρακάλει, ἵνα ἡ μετάνοια αὐτῶν καθαρὰ γένηται τὰς λοιπὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

So he completed the twelve commandments and said to me, “You have these commandments; walk in them, and exhort those who hear, so that their repentance may be pure for the rest of the days of their life.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:128 · 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. 12.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/3/2/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/3/2/).

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