Epistle of Barnabas 16.1

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

Summary: Israel wrongly put its hope in the temple building.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:396

Ἔτι δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ ναοῦ ἐρῶ ὑμῖν, ὡς πλανώμενοι οἱ ταλαίπωροι εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἤλπισαν, καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτούς, ὡς ὄντα οἶκον θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Further, I will also speak to you about the temple, how the wretched people, going astray, set their hope on the building and not on their God who made them, as if it were the house of God.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:396 · 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.

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Barn. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/16/1/).

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Barn. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/16/1/).

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