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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.20.3 (97.3)

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

Summary: It is hard for the rich to enter God's kingdom.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:270–272

ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν τριβόλοις γυμνοῖς ποσὶ περιπατεῖν δύσκολόν ἐστιν, οὕτω καὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις δύσκολόν ἐστιν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν.

English · Claude translation

For just as it is hard to walk among thistles with bare feet, so also it is hard for such people to enter the kingdom of God.

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Source
Lake, LCL 25:270–272 · 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
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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Herm. Sim. 9.20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/20/3/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/20/3/).

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