Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.29.1 (106.1)

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

Summary: The white mountain: those innocent as babies.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:286–288

Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ δωδεκάτου τοῦ λευκοῦ οἱ πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν· ὡς νήπια βρέφη εἰσίν, οἷς οὐδεμία κακία ἀναβαίνει ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν οὐδὲ ἔγνωσαν, τί ἐστι πονηρία, ἀλλὰ πάντοτε ἐν νηπιότητι διέμειναν.

English · Claude translation

Those who believed from the twelfth mountain, the white one, are such as these: they are like little babies, into whose heart no evil enters, nor have they known what wickedness is, but they have always remained in childlikeness.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:286–288 · 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 (missing accent)): οὐδεμία κακια → οὐδεμία κακία.

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Herm. Sim. 9.29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/29/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/29/1/).

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