Epistle of Barnabas 1.7

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

Summary: God has revealed past, present, and future through the prophets.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:342

ἐγνώρισεν γὰρ ἡμῖν ὁ δεσπότης διὰ τῶν προφητῶν τὰ παρεληλυθότα καὶ τὰ ἐνεστῶτα, καὶ τῶν μελλόντων δοὺς ἀπαρχὰς ἡμῖν γεύσεως, ὧν τὰ καθʼ ἕκαστα βλέποντες ἐνεργούμενα, καθὼς ἐλάλησεν, ὀφείλομεν πλουσιώτερον καὶ ὑψηλότερον προσάγειν τῷ φόβῳ αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

For the Master has made known to us through the prophets the things that are past and the things that are present, and has given us a foretaste of the things to come. As we see these things coming to pass one by one, just as he spoke, we ought to draw near to the fear of him more richly and more loftily.

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Source: Lake, LCL 24:342 · 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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Barn. 1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/1/7/).

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Barn. 1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/1/7/).

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