Epistle of Barnabas 15.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: God rejects the present sabbaths; the eighth day begins a new world.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:394–396

πέρας γέ τοι λέγει αὐτοῖς· Τὰς νεομηνίας ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ σάββατα οὐκ ἀνέχομαι. ὁρᾶτε, πῶς λέγει; οὐ τὰ νῦν σάββατα ἐμοὶ δεκτά, ἀλλὰ ὃ πεποίηκα, ἐν ᾧ καταπαύσας τὰ πάντα ἀρχὴν ἡμέρας ὀγδόης ποιήσω, ὅ ἐστιν ἄλλου κόσμου ἀρχήν.

English · Claude translation

Indeed, he says to them, “Your new moons and your sabbaths I cannot endure.” Do you see what he means? The present sabbaths are not acceptable to me, but the one that I have made, on which, having brought all things to rest, I will make the beginning of an eighth day, that is, the beginning of another world.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:394–396 · 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 1:13 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Cite this passage

Barn. 15.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/8/).

Plain text

Barn. 15.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/15/8/).