Epistle of Barnabas 4.3

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

Summary: The final trial is near, as Enoch foretold.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:348

τὸ τέλειον σκάνδαλον ἤγγικεν, περὶ οὗ γέγραπται, ὡς Ἐνὼχ λέγει. Εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ δεσπότης συντέτμηκεν τοὺς καιροὺς καὶ τὰς ἡμέρας, ἵνα ταχύνῃ ὁ ἠγαπημένος αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν κληρονομίαν ἥξῃ,

English · Claude translation

The final stumbling block has drawn near, about which it is written, as Enoch says: “For this reason the Master has cut short the times and the days, so that his Beloved may hurry and come to his inheritance.”

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:348 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

1 En. (1 Enoch) · quotation, low confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is attributed to Enoch but is not found in the surviving books of Enoch.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): περὶ οὖ γέγραπται → περὶ οὗ γέγραπται.

Cite this passage

Barn. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/3/).

Plain text

Barn. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/3/).

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