# Epistle of Barnabas 3.1

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Epistle of Barnabas](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/) (*Epistula Barnabae*)
- Date: ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:346; 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/3/1/

Summary: Isaiah on the fast God does not want.

## Greek text

Λέγει οὖν πάλιν περὶ τούτων πρὸς αὐτούς· Ἱνατί μοι νηστεύετε, λέγει κύριος, ὡς σήμερον ἀκουσθῆναι ἐν κραυγῇ τὴν φωνὴν ὑμῶν; οὐ ταύτην τὴν νηστείαν ἐγὼ ἐξελεξάμην, λέγει κύριος, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον ταπεινοῦντα τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ,

## English translation (Claude)

Again, then, he speaks to them about these things: “Why do you fast for me, says the Lord, so that today your voice is heard in a shout? This is not the fast that I have chosen, says the Lord, not a man humbling his soul;

## Scripture references

- Isa 58:4: quotation, high confidence
- Isa 58:5: quotation, high confidence

## Citation (SBL)

Barn. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/3/1/).