Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 12.9

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

Summary: Moses foretold that the Son of God would destroy Amalek.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:386

λέγει οὖν Μωϋσῆς Ἰησοῦ, υἱῷ Ναυή, ἐπιθεὶς τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα, ὁπότε ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν κατάσκοπον τῆς γῆς· Λάβε βιβλίον εἰς τὰς χεῖράς σου καὶ γράψον, ἃ λέγει κύριος, ὅτι ἐκκόψει ἐκ ῥιζῶν τὸν οἶκον πάντα τοῦ Ἀμαλὴκ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν.

English · Claude translation

So Moses says to Jesus the son of Nun, having given him this name when he sent him to spy out the land: “Take a book in your hands and write what the Lord says: that the Son of God will cut off by the roots the whole house of Amalek in the last days.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:386 · 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. 12.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/9/).

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Barn. 12.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/12/9/).

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