Sophia Scriptura

Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 2.1 (27.1)

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

Summary: Be simple and innocent like little children.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:70

Λέγει μοι· Ἁπλότητα ἔχε καὶ ἄκακος γίνου, καὶ ἔσῃ ὡς τὰ νήπια τὰ μὴ γινώσκοντα τὴν πονηρίαν τὴν ἀπολλύουσαν τὴν ζωὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

English · Claude translation

He said to me, “Have simplicity and be innocent, and you will be like little children who do not know the wickedness that destroys human life.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:70 · 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. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/2/1/).

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Herm. Mand. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/2/1/).

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