Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.26.1 (103.1)

Summary: The desert mountain with deadly beasts.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:280

Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ ἐνάτου τοῦ ἐρημώδους, τοῦ τὰ ἑρπετὰ καὶ θηρία ἐν αὐτῷ ἔχοντος τὰ διαφθείροντα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, οἱ πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν·

Those who believed from the ninth mountain, the desert one, which has in it the reptiles and wild beasts that destroy people, are such as these:

Source: Lake, LCL 25:280 · 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. 9.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/1/).

Plain text

Herm. Sim. 9.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/26/1/).