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Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 9.11 (39.11)

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

Summary: Faith is from above; doubt is earthly and powerless.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:110

βλέπεις οὖν, φησίν, ὅτι ἡ πίστις ἄνωθέν ἐστι παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ἔχει δύναμιν μεγάλην· ἡ δὲ διψυχία ἐπίγειον πνεῦμά ἐστι παρὰ τοῦ διαβόλου, δύναμιν μὴ ἔχουσα.

English · Claude translation

You see, then,” he said, “that faith is from above, from the Lord, and has great power; but double-mindedness is an earthly spirit from the devil, having no power.

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Lake, LCL 25:110 · 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. 9.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-mand/9/11/).

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