Epistle of Barnabas 16.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Isaiah: God cannot be contained in a house.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:396

σχεδὸν γὰρ ὡς τὰ ἔθνη ἀφιέρωσαν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ναῷ. ἀλλὰ πῶς λέγει κύριος καταργῶν αὐτόν, μάθετε· Τίς ἐμέτρησεν τὸν οὐρανὸν σπιθαμῇ ἢ τὴν γῆν δρακί; οὐκ ἐγώ; λέγει κύριος· Ὁ οὐρανός μοι θρόνος, ἡ δὲ γῆ ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν μου· ποῖον οἶκον οἰκοδομήσετέ μοι, ἢ τίς τόπος τῆς καταπαύσεώς μου; ἐγνώκατε, ὅτι ματαία ἡ ἐλπὶς αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

For almost like the Gentiles they consecrated him in the temple. But learn how the Lord speaks, abolishing it: “Who has measured heaven with a span, or the earth with his hand? Have not I? says the Lord. Heaven is my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet; what kind of house will you build for me, or what is the place of my rest?” You have learned that their hope is vain.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:396 · 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

Isa 40:12 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 66:1 · quotation, high confidence
Acts 7:49 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

Barn. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/16/2/).

Plain text

Barn. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/16/2/).