Epistle of Barnabas 2.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Isaiah: God rejects empty sacrifices and festivals.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:344

Τί μοι πλῆθος τῶν θυσιῶν ὑμῶν; λέγει κύριος. πλήρης εἰμὶ ὁλοκαυτωμάτων, καὶ στέαρ ἀρνῶν καὶ αἷμα ταύρων καὶ τράγων οὐ βούλομαι, οὐδʼ ἂν ἔρχησθε ὀφθῆναί μοι, τίς γὰρ ἐξεζήτησεν ταῦτα ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν; πατεῖν μου τὴν αὐλὴν οὐ προσθήσεσθε. ἐὰν φέρητε σεμίδαλιν, μάταιον· θυμίαμα βδέλυγμά μοί ἐστιν· τὰς νεομηνίας ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ σάββατα οὐκ ἀνέχομαι.

English · Claude translation

“What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the Lord. I am full of burnt offerings, and I do not want the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats, not even if you come to appear before me. For who has required these things from your hands? You shall no longer trample my court. If you bring fine flour, it is futile; incense is an abomination to me; your new moons and sabbaths I cannot endure.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:344 · 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 1:11 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 1:12 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 1:13 · quotation, high confidence

Cite this passage

Barn. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/5/).

Plain text

Barn. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/2/5/).