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Epistle of Barnabas 5.2

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.

Summary: Isaiah's suffering servant is Christ.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:354

γέγραπται γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ ἃ μὲν πρὸς τὸν Ἰσραήλ, ἃ δὲ πρὸς ἡμᾶς, λέγει δὲ οὕτως· Ἐτραυματίσθη διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν καὶ μεμαλάκισται διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν· τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν· ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη, καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἄφωνος ἐναντίον τοῦ κείραντος αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

For it is written about him, some things concerning Israel and some concerning us, and it says thus: “He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our sins; by his stripes we were healed. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer.”

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:354 · 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
Topics
Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἅ μὲν πρὸς → ἃ μὲν πρὸς.

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Barn. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/2/).

Plain text
Barn. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/2/).

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