Epistle of Barnabas 4.10

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

Summary: Do not live in isolation; gather and seek the common good.

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:352

φύγωμεν ἀπὸ πάσης ματαιότητος, μισήσωμεν τελείως τὰ ἔργα τῆς πονηρᾶς ὁδοῦ. μὴ καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἐνδύνοντες μονάζετε ὡς ἤδη δεδικαιωμένοι, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ συνερχόμενοι συνζητεῖτε περὶ τοῦ κοινῇ συμφέροντος.

English · Claude translation

Let us flee from all vanity; let us utterly hate the works of the evil way. Do not withdraw by yourselves and live alone, as though already justified, but come together and seek together what is for the common good.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:352 · 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: Ethics

Cite this passage

Barn. 4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/10/).

Plain text

Barn. 4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/10/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Report an error in this passage