Epistle of Barnabas 21.9

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 24:408

διὸ μᾶλλον ἐσπούδασα γράψαι ἀφʼ ὧν ἠδυνήθην, εἰς τὸ εὐφρᾶναι ὑμᾶς. σώζεσθε, ἀγάπης τέκνα καὶ εἰρήνης. ὁ κύριος τῆς δόξης καὶ πάσης χάριτος μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑμῶν. Ἐπιστολὴ Βαρνάβα

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:408 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

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

Gal 6:18 · echo, medium confidence
Phlm 1:25 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The last line is the manuscript's title for the work.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἠδυνήθην. εἰς τὸ → ἠδυνήθην, εἰς τὸ.

Cite this passage

Barn. 21.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/9/).

Plain text

Barn. 21.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/9/).