Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.24.1 (101.1)

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

Summary: The flourishing seventh mountain.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:278

Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ἑβδόμου ὄρους, ἐν ᾧ βοτάναι χλωραὶ καὶ ἱλαραί, καὶ ὅλον τὸ ὄρος εὐθηνοῦν καὶ πᾶν γένος κτηνῶν καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐνέμοντο τὰς βοτάνας ἐν τούτῳ τῷ ὄρει, καὶ αἱ βοτάναι, ἃς ἐνέμοντο, μᾶλλον εὐθαλεῖς ἐγίνοντο, οἱ πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσι.

English · Claude translation

Those who believed from the seventh mountain, on which the plants are green and cheerful, and the whole mountain flourishing, and every kind of cattle and the birds of heaven fed on the plants on this mountain, and the plants they fed on became more flourishing, are such as these.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:278 · 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)

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong preposition)): ἐκ τούτῳ τῷ ὄρει → ἐν τούτῳ τῷ ὄρει.

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Herm. Sim. 9.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/24/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/24/1/).

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