Epistle of Barnabas 7.9
Summary: At his coming, those who crucified Christ will recognize him.
Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:366
τί οὖν τοῦτό ἐστιν; προσέχετε· Τὸν μὲν ἕνα ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον, τὸν δὲ ἕνα ἐπικατάρατον, καὶ ὅτι τὸν ἐπικατάρατον ἐστεφανωμένον; ἐπειδὴ ὄψονται αὐτὸν τότε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τὸν ποδήρη ἔχοντα τὸν κόκκινον περὶ τὴν σάρκα καὶ ἐροῦσιν· Οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν, ὅν ποτε ἡμεῖς ἐσταυρώσαμεν ἐξουθενήσαντες καὶ κατακεντήσαντες καὶ ἐμπτύσαντες; ἀληθῶς οὗτος ἦν, ὁ τότε λέγων ἑαυτὸν υἱὸν θεοῦ εἶναι.
English · Claude translation
What, then, does this mean? Pay attention: “The one on the altar, the other accursed,” and why is the accursed one crowned? Because they will see him then on that day with the long scarlet robe about his flesh, and they will say, “Is this not the one whom we once crucified, despising and piercing and spitting on him? Truly this was the one who then said he was the Son of God.”
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- Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): τῇ ἠμέρᾳ → τῇ ἡμέρᾳ.
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Barn. 7.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/9/).
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Barn. 7.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/9/).
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