Epistle of Barnabas 2.1

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

Summary: In evil days, seek the Lord's decrees.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:342

Ἡμερῶν οὖν οὐσῶν πονηρῶν καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐνεργοῦντος ἔχοντος τὴν ἐξουσίαν, ὀφείλομεν ἑαυτοῖς προσέχοντες ἐκζητεῖν τὰ δικαιώματα κυρίου,

English · Claude translation

Since, then, the days are evil and the one who is at work has the power, we ought to pay attention to ourselves and seek out the righteous decrees of the Lord.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:342 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

“The one who is at work”: the devil.

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Barn. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/1/).

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Barn. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/1/).

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