Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 19.11

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

Summary: Give without grumbling; keep the teaching unaltered; judge justly.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:404

οὐ διστάσεις δοῦναι οὐδὲ διδοὺς γογγύσεις· γνώσῃ δέ, τίς ὁ τοῦ μισθοῦ καλὸς ἀνταποδότης. φυλάξεις ἃ παρέλαβες, μήτε προστιθεὶς μήτε ἀφαιρῶν. εἰς τέλος μισήσεις τὸ πονηρόν. κρινεῖς δικαίως.

English · Claude translation

You shall not hesitate to give, nor grumble when giving; but you shall know who is the good paymaster of the reward. You shall keep what you have received, neither adding nor taking away. You shall utterly hate evil. You shall judge justly.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:404 · 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. 19.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/11/).

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Barn. 19.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/11/).

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