Epistle of Barnabas 15.3

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

Summary: God finished creation in six days and rested on the seventh.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:394

τὸ σάββατον λέγει ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς κτίσεως· Καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς ἐν ἓξ ἡμέραις τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνετέλεσεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ καὶ κατέπαυσεν ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ ἡγίασεν αὐτήν.

English · Claude translation

He speaks of the Sabbath at the beginning of creation: “And God made the works of his hands in six days, and finished on the seventh day, and rested on it and sanctified it.”

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:394 · 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.

Scripture

Gen 2:2 · quotation, high confidence
Gen 2:3 · quotation, high confidence

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Barn. 15.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/3/).

Plain text

Barn. 15.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/3/).

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