Epistle of Barnabas 9.7

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

Summary: Abraham's circumcision looked forward to Jesus.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:372

μάθετε οὖν, τέκνα ἀγάπης, περὶ πάντων πλουσίως, ὅτι Ἀβραάμ, πρῶτος περιτομὴν δούς, ἐν πνεύματι προβλέψας εἰς τὸν Ἰησοῦν περιέτεμεν, λαβὼν τριῶν γραμμάτων δόγματα.

English · Claude translation

Learn, then, children of love, about everything richly: that Abraham, who first gave circumcision, circumcised looking forward in the Spirit to Jesus, having received the teachings of three letters.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:372 · 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. 9.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/9/7/).

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Barn. 9.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/9/7/).

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