Epistle of Barnabas 6.13

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

Summary: In the last days God makes a new creation like the first.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:360–362

πάλιν σοι ἐπιδείξω, πῶς πρὸς ἡμᾶς λέγει. δευτέραν πλάσιν ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων ἐποίησεν. λέγει δὲ κύριος· Ἰδού, ποιῶ τὰ ἔσχατα ὡς τὰ πρῶτα. εἰς τοῦτο οὖν ἐκήρυξεν ὁ προφήτης· Εἰσέλθατε εἰς γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆς.

English · Claude translation

Again I will show you how he speaks to us. He made a second creation in the last days. And the Lord says, “Behold, I make the last things like the first.” For this reason, then, the prophet proclaimed, “Enter into a land flowing with milk and honey and rule over it.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:360–362 · 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

Exod 33:3 · allusion, medium confidence
Rev 21:5 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

“I make the last things like the first” is not found in scripture in this form.

Cite this passage

Barn. 6.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/13/).

Plain text

Barn. 6.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/13/).

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