Epistle of Barnabas 16.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Forgiven and made new, we become God's dwelling.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:398

Οἰκοδομηθήσεται δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι κυρίου. προσέχετε δέ, ἵνα ὁ ναὸς τοῦ κυρίου ἐνδόξως οἰκοδομηθῇ. πῶς, μάθετε. λαβόντες τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ ἐλπίσαντες ἐπὶ τὸ ὄνομα ἐγενόμεθα καινοί, πάλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς κτιζόμενοι· διὸ ἐν τῷ κατοικητηρίῳ ἡμῶν ἀληθῶς ὁ θεὸς κατοικεῖ ἐν ἡμῖν.

English · Claude translation

“But it will be built in the name of the Lord.” Pay attention, so that the temple of the Lord may be built gloriously. Learn how: having received the forgiveness of sins and hoped on the name, we became new, created again from the beginning; therefore God truly dwells in us, in our dwelling place.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:398 · 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

Baptism

Cite this passage

Barn. 16.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/16/8/).

Plain text

Barn. 16.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/16/8/).