Lake Apostolic Fathers 2 - Bible Translation

THE SHEPHERD, sim. i\. i. 3-9
you must leani evcrytJiiiig mure accuralely from me.
For, for this reason too, I was given by the glorious
angel, to live in your liouse, that you might see all
things with jK)wer and fear nothing, as you did for-
merly. 4. And he took me away to Arcadia,^ to a xiie vision
breast-shaped mountain, and set me on top of the Mountains
mountain, and showed me a great plain and round
the {)lain twelve mountains, and each mountain had a
different appearance. 5. The first was black as pitch,
the second was bare without herbs, and the third was
full of thorns and thistles. 6. And the fourth had
half-dried herbage ; the tops of the herbs were green,
but the parts by the roots were dry. And some of
the herbs, when the sun had burnt them, were becoming
dry, 7. And the fifth mountain had green
herbs and was steep. And the sixth mountain was
altogether full of cracks, some small and some great.
And the cracks had herbage, but the herbage was
not very flourishing, but rather as if it were fading,
8. And the seventh mountain had vigorous herbage,
and the whole mountain was flourishing, and all
kinds of cattle and birds were feeding on that
mountain. And the more the cattle and birds
were feeding, the more the herbage of that mountain
flourished. And the eighth mountain was full of
springs, and every kind of creature of the Lord was
given to drink from the springs of that mountain.
9. But the ninth mountain had no water at all, and
was quite desert. But it had in it wild beasts and
deadly reptiles destroying men. And the tenth nioun-
' Arcadia is found in all the authorities ; but it plays no
further part in the story. Zahn emends to 'Aricia ; but
Ancia is a village, and Monte Cavo, which might be
intended, is not specially near to it
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