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Epistle of Barnabas 21.9

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

Summary: Farewell and blessing.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:408

διὸ μᾶλλον ἐσπούδασα γράψαι ἀφʼ ὧν ἠδυνήθην, εἰς τὸ εὐφρᾶναι ὑμᾶς. σώζεσθε, ἀγάπης τέκνα καὶ εἰρήνης. ὁ κύριος τῆς δόξης καὶ πάσης χάριτος μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑμῶν. Ἐπιστολὴ Βαρνάβα

English · Claude translation

For this reason I have been all the more eager to write, as far as I was able, to gladden you. Farewell, children of love and peace. The Lord of glory and of all grace be with your spirit. [The Epistle of Barnabas.]

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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.
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Translation notes

  • The last line is the manuscript's title for the work.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἠδυνήθην. εἰς τὸ → ἠδυνήθην, εἰς τὸ.

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Barn. 21.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/9/).

Plain text
Barn. 21.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/21/9/).

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