The Shepherd of Hermas

So he finished the twelve commandments,[*](Conclusion of Mandates) and said to me: You have these commandments; walk in them, and exhort those who hear that their repentance may be pure for the rest of the days of their life.

Fulfil carefully this ministry which I give you, and work much in it, for you will find favour with those who are about to repent, and they

I said to him, Sir, these commandments are great and beautiful and glorious, and able to make glad the heart of man, if he be able to keep them. But I do not know if these commandments can be kept by man, because they are very hard.