Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 12.4

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

Summary: Isaiah: God stretched out his hands all day long.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:384

καὶ πάλιν ἐν ἑτέρῳ προφήτῃ λέγει· Ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἐξεπέτασα τὰς χεῖράς μου πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθῆ καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα ὁδῷ δικαίᾳ μου.

English · Claude translation

And again in another prophet he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient people, who oppose my righteous way.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:384 · 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. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/4/).

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Barn. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/4/).

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