Epistle of Barnabas 12.11

Anonymous · Epistle of Barnabas · ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) · place unknown · Read in context

Traditional ascription rejected: The letter names no author. From Clement of Alexandria (late second century) onward it was ascribed to Barnabas, Paul's companion (Acts 4:36), but its date and its hostility to Jewish practice make that unlikely; modern scholars treat it as anonymous.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:386

καὶ πάλιν λέγει οὕτως Ἡσαΐας· Εἶπεν κύριος τῷ Χριστῷ μου κυρίῳ, οὗ ἐκράτησα τῆς δεξιᾶς αὐτοῦ, ἐπακοῦσαι ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ ἔθνη, καὶ ἰσχὺν βασιλέων διαρρήξω. ἴδε, πῶς Δαυεὶδ λέγει αὐτὸν κύριον, καὶ υἱὸν οὐ λέγει.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:386 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 340–407 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), 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

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Isa 45:1 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Isa 45:1 LXX reads “to my anointed, Cyrus” (Κύρῳ); the author reads “to my Christ, the Lord” (κυρίῳ), differing by one letter.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slips against Lake's printed text (wrong accent; punctuation); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): Εἷπεν κύριος τῷ Χριστῷ μου κυρίῳ. οὗ → Εἶπεν κύριος τῷ Χριστῷ μου κυρίῳ, οὗ; κύριον. καὶ υἱὸν → κύριον, καὶ υἱὸν.

Cite this passage

Barn. 12.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/11/).

Plain text

Barn. 12.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/11/).