Epistle of Barnabas 4.1

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

Summary: Flee lawlessness and hate the error of the present age.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:348

Δεῖ οὖν ἡμᾶς περὶ τῶν ἐνεστώτων ἐπιπολὺ ἐραυνῶντας ἐκζητεῖν τὰ δυνάμενα ἡμᾶς σώζειν. φύγωμεν οὖν τελείως ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων τῆς ἀνομίας, μήποτε καταλάβῃ ἡμᾶς τὰ ἔργα τῆς ἀνομίας· καὶ μισήσωμεν τὴν πλάνην τοῦ νῦν καιροῦ, ἵνα εἰς τὸν μέλλοντα ἀγαπηθῶμεν.

English · Claude translation

We must, then, search diligently about present things and seek out what is able to save us. Let us flee completely from all the works of lawlessness, lest the works of lawlessness overtake us; and let us hate the error of the present time, so that we may be loved in the time to come.

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.
Topics: Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): φύγωμεν οὑν → φύγωμεν οὖν.

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Barn. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/1/).

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Barn. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/1/).

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