Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 5.6

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

Summary: Christ endured suffering to abolish death and show the resurrection.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:354–356

μάθετε. οἱ προφῆται, ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ ἔχοντες τὴν χάριν, εἰς αὐτὸν ἐπροφήτευσαν· αὐτὸς δέ, ἵνα καταργήσῃ τὸν θάνατον καὶ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν δείξῃ, ὅτι ἐν σαρκὶ ἔδει αὐτὸν φανερωθῆναι, ὑπέμεινεν,

English · Claude translation

Learn: the prophets, having their grace from him, prophesied of him; and he, in order to abolish death and show the resurrection from the dead, because he had to be manifested in the flesh, endured,

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:354–356 · 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 breathings)): ὅτι ὲν σαρκὶ ἕδει → ὅτι ἐν σαρκὶ ἔδει.

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Barn. 5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/6/).

Plain text
Barn. 5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/5/6/).

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