Epistle of Barnabas 8.5

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

Summary: The wool on the stick means Jesus reigns from the cross.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:368–370

ὅτι δὲ τὸ ἔριον ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον; ὅτι ἡ βασιλεία Ἰησοῦ ἐπὶ ξύλου, καὶ ὅτι οἱ ἐλπίζοντες ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ζήσονται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

And why is the wool on the stick? Because the kingdom of Jesus is on the tree, and because those who hope in him will live forever.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:368–370 · 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.
Topics: Christology

Barn. 8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/8/5/).

Plain text

Barn. 8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/8/5/).