Epistle of Barnabas 12.3

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

Summary: Salvation depends on hope in the crucified one.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:384

πρὸς τί; ἵνα γνῶσιν ὅτι οὐ δύνανται σωθῆναι, ἐὰν μὴ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ ἐλπίσωσιν.

Why? So that they might know that they cannot be saved unless they hope in him.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:384 · 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 breathing)): ἑὰν μὴ → ἐὰν μὴ.

Barn. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/3/).

Plain text

Barn. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/3/).