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Epistle of Barnabas 6.10

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

Summary: Only the wise understand the Lord's parables.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:360

τί οὖν λέγει· Εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν ἀγαθήν, γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι; εὐλογητὸς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν, ἀδελφοί, ὁ σοφίαν καὶ νοῦν θέμενος ἐν ἡμῖν τῶν κρυφίων αὐτοῦ· λέγει γὰρ ὁ προφήτης παραβολὴν κυρίου· τίς νοήσει, εἰ μὴ σοφὸς καὶ ἐπιστήμων καὶ ἀγαπῶν τὸν κύριον αὐτοῦ;

English · Claude translation

What, then, does it mean: “Into the good land, a land flowing with milk and honey”? Blessed be our Lord, brothers, who has placed in us wisdom and understanding of his secrets. For the prophet speaks a parable of the Lord: who will understand it, except one who is wise and understanding and loves his Lord?

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Lake, LCL 24:360 · 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
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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. 6.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/10/).

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Barn. 6.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/10/).

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