Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.23.1 (100.1)

Summary: The cracked mountain.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:276

Οἱ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ ἕκτου τοῦ ἔχοντος σχισμὰς μεγάλας καὶ μικρὰς καὶ ἐν ταῖς σχισμαῖς βοτάνας μεμαραμμένας πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν.

Those who believed from the sixth mountain, which has great and small cracks, and withered plants in the cracks, are such as these.

Source: Lake, LCL 25:276 · 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.

Herm. Sim. 9.23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/23/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/23/1/).