# Epistle of Barnabas 8.2

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Epistle of Barnabas](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/) (*Epistula Barnabae*)
- Date: ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:368; 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/8/2/

Summary: The calf is Jesus; those who offer it are those who killed him.

## Greek text

νοεῖτε, πῶς ἐν ἁπλότητι λέγει ὑμῖν. ὁ μόσχος ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐστίν, οἱ προσφέροντες ἄνδρες ἁμαρτωλοὶ οἱ προσενέγκαντες αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν σφαγήν. εἶτα οὐκέτι ἄνδρες, οὐκέτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ἡ δόξα.

## English translation (Claude)

Understand how simply he speaks to you. The calf is Jesus; the sinful men who offer it are those who brought him to the slaughter. Then there are no longer men, no longer the glory of sinners.

## Translation notes

- The last sentence is obscure; it may mean that after this, sinners have no more part in the rite.

## Citation (SBL)

Barn. 8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/8/2/).