Epistle of Barnabas 1.8

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

Summary: He writes not as a teacher but as one of them.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:342

ἐγὼ δὲ οὐχ ὡς διδάσκαλος, ἀλλʼ ὡς εἷς ἐξ ὑμῶν ὑποδείξω ὀλίγα, διʼ ὧν ἐν τοῖς παροῦσιν εὐφρανθήσεσθε.

But I, not as a teacher but as one of you, will point out a few things by which you will be gladdened in the present circumstances.

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.

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accents and breathing)): ἀλλʼ ὧς εἰς ἐξ ὑμῶν → ἀλλʼ ὡς εἷς ἐξ ὑμῶν.

Barn. 1.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/1/8/).

Plain text

Barn. 1.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/1/8/).