Epistle of Barnabas 5.3

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

Summary: Give thanks for God's revelation of past, present, and future.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:354

οὐκοῦν ὑπερευχαριστεῖν ὀφείλομεν τῷ κυρίῳ, ὅτι καὶ τὰ παρεληλυθότα ἡμῖν ἐγνώρισεν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐνεστῶσιν ἡμᾶς ἐσόφισεν. καὶ εἰς τὰ μέλλοντα οὐκ ἐσμὲν ἀσύνετοι.

English · Claude translation

We ought, then, to give great thanks to the Lord, because he has made known to us the things that are past, and made us wise in things present, and we are not without understanding regarding things to come.

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Source: Lake, LCL 24:354 · 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. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/3/).

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Barn. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/3/).

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