Epistle of Barnabas 7.5

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

Summary: The rite foreshadows the gall and vinegar given to Christ.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:364

πρὸς τί; ἐπειδὴ ἐμὲ ὑπὲρ ἁμαρτιῶν μέλλοντα τοῦ λαοῦ μου τοῦ καινοῦ προσφέρειν τὴν σάρκα μου μέλλετε ποτίζειν χολὴν μετὰ ὄξους, φάγετε ὑμεῖς μόνοι, τοῦ λαοῦ νηστεύοντος καὶ κοπτομένου ἐπὶ σάκκου καὶ σποδοῦ. ἵνα δείξῃ, ὅτι δεῖ αὐτὸν παθεῖν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

Why? Because you are going to give me gall with vinegar to drink when I am about to offer my flesh for the sins of my new people; you alone eat, while the people fast and mourn in sackcloth and ashes; to show that he must suffer at their hands.

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. 7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/5/).

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Barn. 7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/5/).

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