Epistle of Barnabas 5.8

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

Summary: He taught Israel and loved them greatly.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:356

πέρας γέ τοι διδάσκων τὸν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τηλικαῦτα τέρατα καὶ σημεῖα ποιῶν ἐκήρυσσεν, καὶ ὑπερηγάπησεν αὐτόν.

Indeed, he taught Israel and did such great wonders and signs, and preached, and loved them exceedingly.

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.

The sense of the last clause is uncertain: “he loved them” (Israel) or “they loved him.”

Barn. 5.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/8/).

Plain text

Barn. 5.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/8/).