Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 2.5 (27.5)

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

Summary: Receivers answer to God for why they took.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:72

οἱ οὖν λαμβάνοντες ἀποδώσουσιν λόγον τῷ θεῷ, διατί ἔλαβον καὶ εἰς τί· οἱ μὲν γὰρ λαμβάνοντες θλιβόμενοι οὐ δικασθήσονται, οἱ δὲ ἐν ὑποκρίσει λαμβάνοντες τίσουσιν δίκην.

English · Claude translation

Those, then, who receive will give an account to God of why they received and for what; for those who receive because they are in distress will not be judged, but those who receive in hypocrisy will pay the penalty.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:72 · 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.
Topics: Ethics

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Herm. Mand. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/2/5/).

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Herm. Mand. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/2/5/).

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