Epistle of Barnabas 19.1

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

Summary: The way of light begins.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:400

Ἡ οὖν ὁδὸς τοῦ φωτός ἐστιν αὕτη· ἐάν τις θέλων ὁδὸν ὁδεύειν ἐπὶ τὸν ὡρισμένον τόπον, σπεύσῃ τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ. ἔστιν οὖν ἡ δοθεῖσα ἡμῖν γνῶσις τοῦ περιπατεῖν ἐν αὐτῇ τοιαύτη.

English · Claude translation

This, then, is the way of light: if anyone wishes to travel the way to the appointed place, let him be zealous in his works. The knowledge given to us for walking in it is this:

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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. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/1/).

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Barn. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/1/).

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