Shepherd of Hermas
Hermas
Book 2 · Commandment 2
About this work
A visionary Christian work arranged as visions, commandments, and parables, calling baptized believers to repentance, moral seriousness, communal discipline, and hope in God’s mercy within the church.
- Author
- Hermas
- Traditional attribution
- Hermas of Rome, traditionally identified as the brother of Pope Pius I
- Date
- c. AD 100–160
- Origin
- Rome
- Genre
- Apocalypse
The author identifies himself as Hermas; the work’s composition may have developed in stages.
Commandment Second.
On Avoiding Evil-Speaking, and on Giving Alms in Simplicity.
He said to me, “Be simple and