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Epistle of Barnabas 12.11

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

Summary: Isaiah and David both call the Christ Lord.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:386

καὶ πάλιν λέγει οὕτως Ἡσαΐας· Εἶπεν κύριος τῷ Χριστῷ μου κυρίῳ, οὗ ἐκράτησα τῆς δεξιᾶς αὐτοῦ, ἐπακοῦσαι ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ ἔθνη, καὶ ἰσχὺν βασιλέων διαρρήξω. ἴδε, πῶς Δαυεὶδ λέγει αὐτὸν κύριον, καὶ υἱὸν οὐ λέγει.

English · Claude translation

And again Isaiah speaks thus: “The Lord said to my Christ, the Lord, whose right hand I have held, that nations should obey before him, and I will shatter the strength of kings.” See how David calls him Lord, and does not call him son.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:386 · 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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Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Isa 45:1 LXX reads “to my anointed, Cyrus” (Κύρῳ); the author reads “to my Christ, the Lord” (κυρίῳ), differing by one letter.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slips against Lake's printed text (wrong accent; punctuation); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): Εἷπεν κύριος τῷ Χριστῷ μου κυρίῳ. οὗ → Εἶπεν κύριος τῷ Χριστῷ μου κυρίῳ, οὗ; κύριον. καὶ υἱὸν → κύριον, καὶ υἱὸν.

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Barn. 12.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/11/).

Plain text
Barn. 12.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/11/).

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