Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.19.1 (96.1)

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

Summary: The black mountain: apostates and betrayers, without repentance.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:268

Ἐκ τοῦ πρώτου ὄρους τοῦ μέλανος οἱ πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν· ἀποστάται καὶ βλάσφημοι εἰς τὸν κύριον καὶ προδόται τῶν δούλων τοῦ θεοῦ. τούτοις δὲ μετάνοια οὐκ ἔστι, θάνατος δὲ ἔστι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ μέλανές εἰσι· καὶ γὰρ τὸ γένος αὐτῶν ἄνομόν ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

Those who believed from the first mountain, the black one, are such as these: apostates and blasphemers against the Lord and betrayers of God's servants. For these there is no repentance, but there is death, and this is why they are black; for their kind is lawless.

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Source: Lake, LCL 25:268 · 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.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Topics: Persecution

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Herm. Sim. 9.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/19/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/19/1/).

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