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Epistle of Barnabas 14.6

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

Summary: The Father commanded Christ to prepare a holy people.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:392

γέγραπται γάρ, πῶς αὐτῷ ὁ πατὴρ ἐντέλλεται, λυτρωσάμενον ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ σκότους ἑτοιμάσαι ἑαυτῷ λαὸν ἅγιον.

English · Claude translation

For it is written how the Father commands him, having redeemed us from darkness, to prepare a holy people for himself.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:392 · 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. 14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/14/6/).

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Barn. 14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/14/6/).

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