Epistle of Barnabas 7.9

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 24:366

τί οὖν τοῦτό ἐστιν; προσέχετε· Τὸν μὲν ἕνα ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον, τὸν δὲ ἕνα ἐπικατάρατον, καὶ ὅτι τὸν ἐπικατάρατον ἐστεφανωμένον; ἐπειδὴ ὄψονται αὐτὸν τότε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τὸν ποδήρη ἔχοντα τὸν κόκκινον περὶ τὴν σάρκα καὶ ἐροῦσιν· Οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν, ὅν ποτε ἡμεῖς ἐσταυρώσαμεν ἐξουθενήσαντες καὶ κατακεντήσαντες καὶ ἐμπτύσαντες; ἀληθῶς οὗτος ἦν, ὁ τότε λέγων ἑαυτὸν υἱὸν θεοῦ εἶναι.

English · Claude translation

What, then, does this mean? Pay attention: “The one on the altar, the other accursed,” and why is the accursed one crowned? Because they will see him then on that day with the long scarlet robe about his flesh, and they will say, “Is this not the one whom we once crucified, despising and piercing and spitting on him? Truly this was the one who then said he was the Son of God.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:366 · 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

Zech 12:10 · echo, medium confidence
Rev 1:7 · echo, medium confidence
Matt 27:28 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): τῇ ἠμέρᾳ → τῇ ἡμέρᾳ.

Cite this passage

Barn. 7.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/9/).

Plain text

Barn. 7.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/9/).