Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 2.10

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

Summary: The true sacrifice is a broken heart; guard against the evil one.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:344–346

ἡμῖν οὖν οὕτως λέγει· Θυσία τῷ κυρίῳ καρδία συντετριμμένη, ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας τῷ κυρίῳ καρδία δοξάζουσα τὸν πεπλακότα αὐτήν. ἀκριβεύεσθαι οὖν ὀφείλομεν, ἀδελφοί, περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ὁ πονηρὸς παρείσδυσιν πλάνης ποιήσας ἐν ἡμῖν ἐκσφενδονήσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν.

English · Claude translation

To us, then, he speaks thus: “A sacrifice to the Lord is a broken heart; a sweet fragrance to the Lord is a heart that glorifies the one who formed it.” We ought, then, brothers, to be very careful about our salvation, so that the evil one may not slip error into us and hurl us out of our life.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:344–346 · 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.
Scripture
  • Ps 51:17 (50:19 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • The first line is from Ps 51:17; the second is not in the Old Testament (a similar line appears in the Apocalypse of Adam).

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Barn. 2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/10/).

Plain text
Barn. 2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/10/).

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