Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 19.6

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

Summary: Do not covet; keep company with the humble; accept what comes as from God.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:402

οὐ μὴ γένῃ ἐπιθυμῶν τὰ τοῦ πλησίον σου, οὐ μὴ γένῃ πλεονέκτης. οὐδὲ κολληθήσῃ ἐκ ψυχῆς σου μετὰ ὑψηλῶν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ ταπεινῶν καὶ δικαίων ἀναστραφήσῃ. τὰ συμβαίνοντά σοι ἐνεργήματα ὡς ἀγαθὰ προσδέξῃ, εἰδώς, ὅτι ἄνευ θεοῦ οὐδὲν γίνεται.

English · Claude translation

You shall not covet your neighbor's goods; you shall not be greedy. Nor shall you join yourself from your soul to the lofty, but you shall live with the humble and righteous. You shall accept the things that happen to you as good, knowing that nothing happens without God.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:402 · 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. 19.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/6/).

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Barn. 19.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/6/).

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