Epistle of Barnabas 1.3

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

Summary: Seeing the Spirit poured out on them fills him with joy.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:340

διὸ καὶ μᾶλλον συγχαίρω ἐμαυτῷ ἐλπίζων σωθῆναι, ὅτι ἀληθῶς βλέπω ἐν ὑμῖν ἐκκεχυμένον ἀπὸ τοῦ πλουσίου τῆς πηγῆς κυρίου πνεῦμα ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς. οὕτω με ἐξέπληξεν ἐπὶ ὑμῶν ἡ ἐμοὶ ἐπιποθήτη ὄψις ὑμῶν.

English · Claude translation

Therefore I rejoice all the more with myself in the hope of being saved, because I truly see among you the Spirit poured out upon you from the riches of the Lord's fountain. So greatly did the sight of you, which I had longed for, astonish me concerning you.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:340 · 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
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.

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Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): σωθῆναι. ὅτι ἀληθῶς → σωθῆναι, ὅτι ἀληθῶς.

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Barn. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/1/3/).

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Barn. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/1/3/).

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