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Epistle of Barnabas 5.2

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

Summary: Isaiah's suffering servant is Christ.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:354

γέγραπται γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ ἃ μὲν πρὸς τὸν Ἰσραήλ, ἃ δὲ πρὸς ἡμᾶς, λέγει δὲ οὕτως· Ἐτραυματίσθη διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν καὶ μεμαλάκισται διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν· τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν· ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη, καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἄφωνος ἐναντίον τοῦ κείραντος αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

For it is written about him, some things concerning Israel and some concerning us, and it says thus: “He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our sins; by his stripes we were healed. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:354 · 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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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἅ μὲν πρὸς → ἃ μὲν πρὸς.

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Barn. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/2/).

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