Epistle of Barnabas 14.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Isaiah: the Servant is a covenant and a light for the nations.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:392

λέγει οὖν ὁ προφήτης· Ἐγὼ κύριος, ὁ θεός σου, ἐκάλεσά σε ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ κρατήσω τῆς χειρός σου καὶ ἐνισχύσω σε, καὶ ἔδωκά σε εἰς διαθήκην γένους, εἰς φῶς ἐθνῶν ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλῶν καὶ ἐξαγαγεῖν ἐκ δεσμῶν πεπεδημένους καὶ ἐξ οἴκου φυλακῆς καθημένους ἐν σκότει. γινώσκομεν οὖν, πόθεν ἐλυτρώθημεν.

English · Claude translation

So the prophet says, “I, the Lord your God, have called you in righteousness, and I will hold your hand and strengthen you; and I have given you as a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, and to bring out from their chains those who are bound, and from the prison house those who sit in darkness.” We know, then, from what we have been redeemed.

About this passage

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.

Scripture

Isa 42:6 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 42:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Barn. 14.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/14/7/).

Plain text

Barn. 14.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/14/7/).