Epistle of Barnabas 15.7

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

Summary: We will keep the true Sabbath when all things are made new.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:394

ἴδε ὅτι ἄρα τότε καλῶς καταπαυόμενοι ἁγιάσομεν αὐτήν, ὅτε δυνησόμεθα αὐτοὶ δικαιωθέντες καὶ ἀπολαβόντες τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, μηκέτι οὔσης τῆς ἀνομίας, καινῶν δὲ γεγονότων πάντων ὑπὸ κυρίου· τότε δυνησόμεθα αὐτὴν ἁγιάσαι, αὐτοὶ ἁγιασθέντες πρῶτον.

English · Claude translation

See, then, that we will truly rest and sanctify it only then, when we are able to do so ourselves, having been justified and having received the promise, when lawlessness is no more and all things have been made new by the Lord. Then we will be able to sanctify it, having first been sanctified ourselves.

About this passage

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.
Topics: Eschatology

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Barn. 15.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/7/).

Plain text

Barn. 15.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/7/).

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