Epistle of Barnabas 2.4

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

Summary: The prophets show God does not need sacrifices.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:344

πεφανέρωκεν γὰρ ἡμῖν διὰ πάντων τῶν προφητῶν, ὅτι οὔτε θυσιῶν οὔτε ὁλοκαυτωμάτων οὔτε προσφορῶν χρῄζει, λέγων ὅτε μέν·

For he has made clear to us through all the prophets that he needs neither sacrifices nor burnt offerings nor offerings, saying in one place:

Source: Lake, LCL 24:344 · 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.

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): οὕτε θυσιῶν → οὔτε θυσιῶν.

Barn. 2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/4/).

Plain text

Barn. 2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/4/).