Epistle of Barnabas 21.5

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

Summary: A prayer for wisdom and endurance.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:408

ὁ δὲ θεός, ὁ τοῦ παντὸς κόσμου κυριεύων, δῴη ὑμῖν σοφίαν, σύνεσιν, ἐπιστήμην, γνῶσιν τῶν δικαιωμάτων αὐτοῦ, ὑπομονήν.

And may God, who rules the whole world, give you wisdom, understanding, insight, knowledge of his righteous decrees, and endurance.

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.
Topics: Prayer

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the list continues)): σύνεσιν. ἐπιστήμην → σύνεσιν, ἐπιστήμην.

Barn. 21.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/5/).

Plain text

Barn. 21.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/5/).