# Epistle of Barnabas 2.8

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Epistle of Barnabas](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/) (*Epistula Barnabae*)
- Date: ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) (disputed)
- 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/8/

Summary: God commanded instead to bear no grudge and swear no false oath.

## Greek text

ἀλλʼ ἢ τοῦτο ἐνετειλάμην αὐτοῖς· ἕκαστος ὑμῶν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ἑαυτοῦ κακίαν μὴ μνησικακείτω, καὶ ὅρκον ψευδῆ μὴ ἀγαπᾶτε.

## English translation (Claude)

But this is what I commanded them: let none of you bear a grudge in his heart against his neighbor, and do not love a false oath.”

## Scripture references

- Zech 8:17: quotation, high confidence
- Jer 7:23: allusion, medium confidence

## Citation (SBL)

Barn. 2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/8/).