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Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 9.21.1 (98.1)

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

Summary: The fourth mountain: the double-minded and those who honor God only with their lips.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:272

Ἐκ δὲ τοῦ τετάρτου ὄρους τοῦ ἔχοντος βοτάνας πολλάς, τὰ μὲν ἐπάνω τῶν βοτανῶν χλωρά, τὰ δὲ πρὸς ταῖς ῥίζαις ξηρά, τινὲς δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου ξηραινόμεναι, οἱ πιστεύσαντες τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν· οἱ μὲν δίψυχοι, οἱ δὲ τὸν κύριον ἔχοντες ἐπὶ τὰ χείλη, ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν δὲ μὴ ἔχοντες.

English · Claude translation

Those who believed from the fourth mountain, which has much vegetation, the upper parts of the plants green but the parts near the roots dry, and some being dried up by the sun, are such as these: some are double-minded, and others have the Lord on their lips but do not have him in their heart.

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Lake, LCL 25:272 · 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. 9.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/21/1/).

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Herm. Sim. 9.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/9/21/1/).

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