Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 8.1 (38.1)

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

Summary: Self-control is twofold: some things to refrain from, some not.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:102

Εἶπόν σοι, φησίν, ὅτι τὰ κτίσματα τοῦ θεοῦ διπλᾶ ἐστι· καὶ γὰρ ἡ ἐγκράτεια διπλῆ ἐστιν. ἐπί τινων γὰρ δεῖ ἐγκρατεύεσθαι, ἐπί τινων δὲ οὐ δεῖ·

English · Claude translation

“I told you,” he said, “that God's creatures are twofold; for self-control too is twofold. For in some things one must be self-controlled, and in some things not.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:102 · 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. 8.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/8/1/).

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Herm. Mand. 8.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/8/1/).

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