Epistle of Barnabas 7.1

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

Summary: God revealed all things so that we might praise him.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:364

Οὐκοῦν νοεῖτε, τέκνα εὐφροσύνης, ὅτι πάντα ὁ καλὸς κύριος προεφανέρωσεν ἡμῖν, ἵνα γνῶμεν, ᾧ κατὰ πάντα εὐχαριστοῦντες ὀφείλομεν αἰνεῖν.

English · Claude translation

Understand, then, children of gladness, that the good Lord revealed everything to us beforehand, so that we might know whom we ought to praise, giving thanks for everything.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:364 · 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. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/1/).

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Barn. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/1/).

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