Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 10.1.3 (40.3)

Summary: Hermas does not understand.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:112

Ἐγώ, φημί, κύριε, ἀσύνετός εἰμι καὶ οὐ συνίω τὰς παραβολὰς ταύτας. πῶς γὰρ δύναται ἐκτρίβειν καὶ πάλιν σώζειν, οὐ νοῶ.

“I am foolish, sir,” I said, “and do not understand these parables. For how it can crush out and again save, I do not understand.”

Source: Lake, LCL 25:112 · 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.

Herm. Mand. 10.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/1/3/).

Plain text

Herm. Mand. 10.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/10/1/3/).