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Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 5.2.4 (34.4)

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

Summary: Anger grows by steps into an incurable sin.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:92

ἡ δὲ ὀξυχολία πρῶτον μὲν μωρά ἐστιν, ἐλαφρά τε καὶ ἄφρων. εἶτα ἐκ τῆς ἀφροσύνης γίνεται πικρία, ἐκ δὲ τῆς πικρίας θυμός, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ θυμοῦ ὀργή, ἐκ δὲ τῆς ὀργῆς μῆνις· εἶτα ἡ μῆνις αὕτη ἐκ τοσούτων κακῶν συνισταμένη γίνεται ἁμαρτία μεγάλη καὶ ἀνίατος.

English · Claude translation

But bad temper is first foolish, frivolous, and senseless. Then from folly comes bitterness, from bitterness wrath, from wrath anger, and from anger rancor; then this rancor, made up of so many evils, becomes a great and incurable sin.

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Lake, LCL 25:92 · 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
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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. 5.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/2/4/).

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Herm. Mand. 5.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/5/2/4/).

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