Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 8.12 (38.12)

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

Summary: Doing good and refraining from evil lead to life.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:106

φύλασσε οὖν τὴν ἐντολὴν ταύτην· ἐὰν τὸ ἀγαθὸν ποιῇς καὶ μὴ ἐγκρατεύσῃ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ, καὶ πάντες ζήσονται τῷ θεῷ οἱ οὕτω ποιοῦντες. καὶ πάλιν ἐὰν τὸ πονηρὸν μὴ ποιῇς καὶ ἐγκρατεύσῃ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, ζήσῃ τῷ θεῷ, καὶ πάντες ζήσονται τῷ θεῷ, ὅσοι ἐὰν ταύτας τὰς ἐντολὰς φυλάξωσι καὶ πορευθῶσιν ἐν αὐταῖς.

English · Claude translation

Keep, then, this commandment: if you do good and do not refrain from it, you will live to God, and all who do so will live to God. And again, if you do not do evil and refrain from it, you will live to God, and all will live to God who keep these commandments and walk in them.”

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:106 · 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. 8.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/8/12/).

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Herm. Mand. 8.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/8/12/).

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