Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.20.1 (97.1)

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

Summary: The thorny mountain: the rich and the overbusy.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:270

Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ τρίτου τοῦ ἔχοντος ἀκάνθας καὶ τριβόλους οἱ πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν. ἐξ αὐτῶν οἱ μὲν πλούσιοι, οἱ δὲ πραγματείαις πολλαῖς ἐμπεφυρμένοι. οἱ μὲν τρίβολοί εἰσιν οἱ πλούσιοι, αἱ δὲ ἄκανθαι οἱ ἐν ταῖς πραγματείαις ταῖς ποικίλαις ἐμπεφυρμένοι.

English · Claude translation

Those who believed from the third mountain, which has thorns and thistles, are such as these: some of them are rich, and others mixed up in many business affairs. The thistles are the rich, and the thorns are those mixed up in various business affairs.

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Source

Lake, LCL 25:270 · 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)

Scripture

Matt 13:22 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

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Herm. Sim. 9.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/20/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/20/1/).

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