Epistle of Barnabas 19.12

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

Summary: Make peace, confess sins, and pray with a clean conscience.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:404–406

οὐ ποιήσεις σχίσμα, εἰρηνεύσεις δὲ μαχομένους συναγαγών. ἐξομολογήσῃ ἐπὶ ἁμαρτίαις σου. οὐ προσήξεις ἐπὶ προσευχὴν ἐν συνειδήσει πονηρᾷ. αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ ὁδὸς τοῦ φωτός.

English · Claude translation

You shall not cause division, but you shall make peace by bringing together those who quarrel. You shall confess your sins. You shall not come to prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of light.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:404–406 · 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: Prayer, Ethics

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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text): ἡ ὁδὸς, τοῦ φωτός → ἡ ὁδὸς τοῦ φωτός.

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Barn. 19.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/12/).

Plain text

Barn. 19.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/12/).

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