Epistle of Barnabas 13.3

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

Summary: Understand the meaning of Isaac and Rebecca.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:388

αἰσθάνεσθαι ὀφείλετε, τίς ὁ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ τίς ἡ Ῥεβέκκα, καὶ ἐπὶ τίνων δέδειχεν, ὅτι μείζων ὁ λαὸς οὗτος ἢ ἐκεῖνος.

You ought to understand who Isaac is and who Rebecca is, and concerning whom he has shown that this people is greater than that one.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:388 · 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 (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἡ Ῥεβέκκα. καὶ ἐπὶ → ἡ Ῥεβέκκα, καὶ ἐπὶ.

Barn. 13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/13/3/).

Plain text

Barn. 13.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/13/3/).