Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 19.8

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

Summary: Share everything; guard the tongue; keep pure.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:404

κοινωνήσεις ἐν πᾶσιν τῷ πλησίον σου καὶ οὐκ ἐρεῖς ἴδια εἶναι· εἰ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἀφθάρτῳ κοινωνοί ἐστε, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἐν τοῖς φθαρτοῖς; οὐκ ἔσῃ πρόγλωσσος· παγὶς γὰρ τὸ στόμα θανάτου. ὅσον δύνασαι, ὑπὲρ τῆς ψυχῆς σου ἁγνεύσεις.

English · Claude translation

You shall share everything with your neighbor and not say that anything is your own; for if you are sharers in what is imperishable, how much more in perishable things? You shall not be quick to speak, for the mouth is a snare of death. As far as you can, you shall be pure for your soul's sake.

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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. 19.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/8/).

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Barn. 19.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/8/).

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