Epistle of Barnabas 21.4

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

Summary: Be good guides and counselors to one another.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:408

ἔτι καὶ ἔτι ἐρωτῶ ὑμᾶς· ἑαυτῶν γίνεσθε νομοθέται ἀγαθοί, ἑαυτῶν μένετε σύμβουλοι πιστοί, ἄρατε ἐξ ὑμῶν πᾶσαν ὑπόκρισιν.

Again and again I ask you: be good lawgivers for one another; remain faithful counselors of one another; remove all hypocrisy from among you.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:408 · 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.

Barn. 21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/4/).

Plain text

Barn. 21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/4/).