Epistle of Barnabas 13.6

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

Summary: This people is first and heir of the covenant.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:388

βλέπετε, ἐπὶ τίνων τέθεικεν, τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον εἶναι πρῶτον καὶ τῆς διαθήκης κληρονόμον.

See on whom he has set it: that this people is first and heir of the covenant.

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.

Barn. 13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/13/6/).

Plain text

Barn. 13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/13/6/).