# Epistle of Barnabas 10.1

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Epistle of Barnabas](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/) (*Epistula Barnabae*)
- Date: ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:374; 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/10/1/

Summary: Moses' food laws contain three moral teachings.

## Greek text

Ὅτι δὲ Μωϋσῆς εἶπεν· Οὐ φάγεσθε χοῖρον οὔτε ἀετὸν οὔτε ὀξύπτερον οὔτε κόρακα οὔτε πάντα ἰχθύν, ὃς οὐκ ἔχει λεπίδα ἐν ἑαυτῷ, τρία ἔλαβεν ἐν τῇ συνέσει δόγματα.

## English translation (Claude)

Now when Moses said, “You shall not eat pig, nor eagle, nor hawk, nor crow, nor any fish that has no scales on it,” he received in his understanding three teachings.

## Scripture references

- Lev 11:7: allusion, high confidence
- Lev 11:13: allusion, high confidence
- Lev 11:10: allusion, high confidence
- Deut 14:8: allusion, medium confidence

## Translation notes

- Chapter 10 reads the Jewish food laws as moral allegories: each unclean animal stands for a kind of person to avoid. The natural history is that of ancient popular belief.

## Citation (SBL)

Barn. 10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/10/1/).