Epistle of Barnabas 15.6

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

Summary: No one can now keep the Sabbath truly holy.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:394

πέρας γέ τοι λέγει· Ἁγιάσεις αὐτὴν χερσὶν καθαραῖς καὶ καρδίᾳ καθαρᾷ. εἰ οὖν ἣν ὁ θεὸς ἡμέραν ἡγίασεν νῦν τις δύναται ἁγιάσαι καθαρὸς ὢν τῇ καρδίᾳ, ἐν πᾶσιν πεπλανήμεθα.

English · Claude translation

Indeed, he says, “You shall sanctify it with clean hands and a clean heart.” If, then, anyone can now sanctify the day that God sanctified by being pure in heart, we are deceived in everything.

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Source: Lake, LCL 24:394 · 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. 15.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/6/).

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Barn. 15.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/6/).

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