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Epistle of Barnabas 5.12

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

Summary: Zechariah foretold that the shepherd would be struck.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:356

οὐκοῦν εἰς τοῦτο ὑπέμεινεν. λέγει γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τὴν πληγὴν τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐξ αὐτῶν· Ὅταν πατάξωσιν τὸν ποιμένα ἑαυτῶν, τότε ἀπολεῖται τὰ πρόβατα τῆς ποίμνης.

English · Claude translation

So for this he endured. For God says that the wound of his flesh came from them: “When they strike their shepherd, then the sheep of the flock will perish.”

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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. 5.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/12/).

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Barn. 5.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/12/).

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