Epistle of Barnabas 3.6

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

Summary: God warned us beforehand so that we would not become proselytes to the Jewish law.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:348

εἰς τοῦτο οὖν, ἀδελφοί, ὁ μακρόθυμος προβλέψας, ὡς ἐν ἀκεραιοσύνῃ πιστεύσει ὁ λαός, ὃν ἡτοίμασεν ἐν τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ αὐτοῦ, προεφανέρωσεν ἡμῖν περὶ πάντων, ἵνα μὴ προσρησσώμεθα ὡς ἐπήλυτοι τῷ ἐκείνων νόμῳ.

English · Claude translation

For this reason, then, brothers, the long-suffering one, foreseeing that the people whom he prepared in his Beloved would believe in innocence, revealed everything to us beforehand, so that we might not be shipwrecked as proselytes to their law.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:348 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

“Their law”: the Jewish law as observed literally. The author sharply opposes Christian adoption of Jewish practice.

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Barn. 3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/3/6/).

Plain text

Barn. 3.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/3/6/).

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