Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.4.3 (47.3)

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

Summary: One who has the Lord in his heart can keep all the commandments.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:132

εἰ οὖν, φησίν, πάντων ὁ ἄνθρωπος κύριός ἐστι τῶν κτισμάτων τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πάντων κατακυριεύει, οὐ δύναται καὶ τούτων τῶν ἐντολῶν κατακυριεῦσαι; δύναται, φησί, πάντων καὶ πασῶν τῶν ἐντολῶν τούτων κατακυριεῦσαι ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ ἔχων τὸν κύριον ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

If, then,” he said, “man is lord of all God's creatures and rules over all, can he not also master these commandments? He can,” he said, “master everything and all these commandments, the man who has the Lord in his heart.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:132 · 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. 12.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/3/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/4/3/).

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