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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.1.10 (78.10)

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

Summary: The eleventh is full of fruit trees; the twelfth is white and beautiful.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:220

τὸ δὲ ἑνδέκατον ὄρος λίαν σύνδενδρον ἦν, καὶ τὰ δένδρα ἐκεῖνα κατάκαρπα ἦν, ἄλλοις καὶ ἄλλοις καρποῖς κεκοσμημένα, ἵνα ἰδών τις αὐτὰ ἐπιθυμήσῃ φαγεῖν ἐκ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν. τὸ δὲ δωδέκατον ὄρος ὅλον ἦν λευκόν, καὶ ἡ πρόσοψις αὐτοῦ ἱλαρὰ ἦν· καὶ εὐπρεπέστατον ἦν ἐν αὑτῷ τὸ ὄρος.

English · Claude translation

The eleventh mountain was very thickly wooded, and those trees were full of fruit, adorned with various fruits, so that anyone who saw them would long to eat of their fruit. The twelfth mountain was all white, and its appearance was cheerful; and the mountain was very beautiful in itself.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:220 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 138–305 · 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
Text
As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913), and from the ancient Latin version where Lake prints it because the Greek is lost (from Sim. 9.30.3); made independently of existing English translations.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ἐν αὑτῷ το ὄρος → ἐν αὑτῷ τὸ ὄρος.

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Herm. Sim. 9.1.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/1/10/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.1.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/1/10/).

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