Epistle of Barnabas 10.12

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

Summary: We understand the commandments because God circumcised our ears and hearts.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:378

ἀλλὰ πόθεν ἐκείνοις ταῦτα νοῆσαι ἢ συνιέναι; ἡμεῖς δὲ δικαίως νοήσαντες τὰς ἐντολὰς λαλοῦμεν, ὡς ἠθέλησεν ὁ κύριος. διὰ τοῦτο περιέτεμεν τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν καὶ τὰς καρδίας, ἵνα συνιῶμεν ταῦτα.

English · Claude translation

But how could they perceive or understand these things? But we, rightly understanding the commandments, speak them as the Lord wished. For this reason he circumcised our ears and our hearts, so that we might understand these things.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:378 · 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. 10.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/10/12/).

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Barn. 10.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/10/12/).

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