Epistle of Barnabas 2.9

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

Summary: God wants us not to go astray as they did.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:344

αἰσθάνεσθαι οὖν ὀφείλομεν, μὴ ὄντες ἀσύνετοι, τὴν γνώμην τῆς ἀγαθωσύνης τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν, ὅτʼ ἡμῖν λέγει, θέλων ἡμᾶς μὴ ὁμοίως πλανωμένους ἐκείνοις ζητεῖν, πῶς προσάγωμεν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

We ought to perceive, then, since we are not without understanding, the gracious purpose of our Father, for he speaks to us, wishing us not to go astray as they did, but to seek how we may draw near to him.

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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.

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Barn. 2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/9/).

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Barn. 2.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/9/).

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