Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 3.2 (28.2)

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

Summary: Liars rob God of the truthful spirit he entrusted to them.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:74

οἱ οὖν ψευδόμενοι ἀθετοῦσι τὸν κύριον καὶ γίνονται ἀποστερηταὶ τοῦ κυρίου, μὴ παραδιδόντες αὐτῷ τὴν παρακαταθήκην, ἣν ἔλαβον. ἔλαβον γὰρ παρʼ αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα ἄψευστον. τοῦτο ἐὰν ψευδὲς ἀποδώσωσιν, ἐμίαναν τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ἐγένοντο ἀποστερηταί.

English · Claude translation

Those, then, who lie reject the Lord and become robbers of the Lord, not returning to him the deposit they received. For they received from him a spirit free of lies. If they return this as a lying spirit, they have defiled the commandment of the Lord and become robbers.”

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:74 · 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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Digital text corrected (digitization slip: part of a word was repeated): ἀποστερηταὶ στερηταὶ τοῦ κυρίου → ἀποστερηταὶ τοῦ κυρίου.

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Herm. Mand. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/3/2/).

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Herm. Mand. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/3/2/).

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