Epistle of Barnabas 17.1

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

Summary: The author hopes he has left out nothing needed for salvation.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:400

Ἐφʼ ὅσον ἦν ἐν δυνατῷ καὶ ἁπλότητι δηλῶσαι ὑμῖν, ἐλπίζει μου ἡ ψυχὴ τῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ μου μὴ παραλελοιπέναι τι τῶν ἀνηκόντων εἰς σωτηρίαν.

English · Claude translation

As far as it was possible to explain to you simply, my soul hopes, according to my desire, that I have not left out anything that pertains to salvation.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:400 · 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. 17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/17/1/).

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Barn. 17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/17/1/).

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