Epistle of Barnabas 9.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:372

λέγει πρὸς αὐτούς· Τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν ʽὧδε εὑρίσκω ἐντολήνʼ· Μὴ σπείρητε ἐπʼ ἀκάνθαις, περιτμήθητε τῷ κυρίῳ ὑμῶν. καὶ τί λέγει; Περιτμήθητε τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν, καὶ τὸν τράχηλον ὑμῶν οὐ σκληρυνεῖτε. λάβε πάλιν· Ἰδού, λέγει κύριος, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἀπερίτμητα ἀκροβυστίαν, ὁ δὲ λαὸς οὗτος ἀπερίτμητος καρδίας.

English · Claude translation

He says to them, “Thus says the Lord your God” (here I find a commandment): “Do not sow among thorns; be circumcised to your Lord.” And what does he say? “Circumcise your hardness of heart, and do not stiffen your neck.” Take this again: “Behold, says the Lord, all the nations are uncircumcised in foreskin, but this people is uncircumcised in heart.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:372 · 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

Jer 4:3 · quotation, high confidence
Jer 4:4 · quotation, high confidence
Deut 10:16 · quotation, high confidence
Jer 9:26 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip: a stray combining mark in place of the closing parenthesis mark): ἐντολήν̓ → ἐντολήνʼ.

Cite this passage

Barn. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/9/5/).

Plain text

Barn. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/9/5/).