Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 10.2

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

Summary: The food laws were spoken spiritually, not literally.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:374

πέρας γέ τοι λέγει αὐτοῖς ἐν τῷ Δευτερονομίῳ· Καὶ διαθήσομαι πρὸς τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον τὰ δικαιώματά μου. ἄρα οὖν οὐκ ἔστιν ἐντολὴ θεοῦ τὸ μὴ τρώγειν, Μωϋσῆς δὲ ἐν πνεύματι ἐλάλησεν.

English · Claude translation

Indeed, he says to them in Deuteronomy, “And I will establish my righteous decrees with this people.” So then, not eating is not a commandment of God; but Moses spoke in the Spirit.

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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 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free summary; compare Deut 4:1, 5.

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Barn. 10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/10/2/).

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Barn. 10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/10/2/).

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