Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 3.4

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

Summary: Then light and healing will come.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:346

τότε ῥαγήσεται πρώϊμον τὸ φῶς σου, καὶ τὰ ἰάματά σου ταχέως ἀνατελεῖ, καὶ προπορεύσεται ἔμπροσθέν σου ἡ δικαιοσύνη, καὶ ἡ δόξα τοῦ θεοῦ περιστελεῖ σε.

English · Claude translation

Then your light will break forth early, and your healing will spring up quickly, and righteousness will go before you, and the glory of God will surround you.

About this passage

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 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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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (probable digitization slip: “garments” for “healing” (ἰάματα, as in Isa 58:8 LXX and Lake's text)): τὰ ἱμάτιά σου → τὰ ἰάματά σου.

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Barn. 3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/3/4/).

Plain text
Barn. 3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/3/4/).

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