Epistle of Barnabas 4.5

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

Summary: Daniel's fourth beast and the little horn.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:348–350

ὁμοίως περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ λέγει Δανιήλ· Καὶ εἶδον τὸ τέταρτον θηρίον τὸ πονηρὸν καὶ ἰσχυρὸν καὶ χαλεπώτερον παρὰ πάντα τὰ θηρία τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ ὡς ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἀνέτειλεν δέκα κέρατα, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν μικρὸν κέρας παραφυάδιον, καὶ ὡς ἐταπείνωσεν ὑφʼ ἓν τρία τῶν μεγάλων κεράτων.

English · Claude translation

Likewise Daniel says concerning the same: “And I saw the fourth beast, wicked and strong and more fierce than all the beasts of the sea, and how ten horns sprang from it, and from them a little offshoot horn, and how it subdued three of the great horns at once.”

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:348–350 · 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.

Scripture

Dan 7:7 · allusion, high confidence
Dan 7:8 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

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Barn. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/5/).

Plain text

Barn. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/5/).

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