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Epistle of Barnabas 5.11

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

Summary: He came in the flesh to complete the sins of those who killed the prophets.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:356

οὐκοῦν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς τοῦτο ἐν σαρκὶ ἦλθεν, ἵνα τὸ τέλειον τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἀνακεφαλαιώσῃ τοῖς διώξασιν ἐν θανάτῳ τοὺς προφήτας αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

So the Son of God came in the flesh for this reason, that he might bring to completion the full measure of sins of those who persecuted his prophets to death.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:356 · 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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Barn. 5.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/11/).

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Barn. 5.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/11/).

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