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Epistle of Barnabas 5.6

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: Christ endured suffering to abolish death and show the resurrection.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:354–356

μάθετε. οἱ προφῆται, ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ ἔχοντες τὴν χάριν, εἰς αὐτὸν ἐπροφήτευσαν· αὐτὸς δέ, ἵνα καταργήσῃ τὸν θάνατον καὶ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν δείξῃ, ὅτι ἐν σαρκὶ ἔδει αὐτὸν φανερωθῆναι, ὑπέμεινεν,

English · Claude translation

Learn: the prophets, having their grace from him, prophesied of him; and he, in order to abolish death and show the resurrection from the dead, because he had to be manifested in the flesh, endured,

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:354–356 · 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 breathings)): ὅτι ὲν σαρκὶ ἕδει → ὅτι ἐν σαρκὶ ἔδει.

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Barn. 5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/6/).

Plain text
Barn. 5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/6/).

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