Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 12.1.3 (44.3)

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

Summary: Hermas asks about the works of evil desire.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:126

Ποῖα, φημί, κύριε, ἔργα ἐστὶν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς πονηρᾶς τὰ παραδιδόντα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εἰς θάνατον; γνώρισόν μοι, ἵνα ἀφέξωμαι ἀπʼ αὐτῶν. Ἄκουσον, φησίν, ἐν ποίοις ἔργοις θανατοῖ ἡ ἐπιθυμία ἡ πονηρὰ τοὺς δούλους τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“What, sir,” I said, “are the works of evil desire that hand people over to death? Make them known to me, so that I may abstain from them.” “Hear,” he said, “in what works evil desire kills God's servants.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:126 · 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. 12.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/1/3/).

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Herm. Mand. 12.1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/12/1/3/).

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