Epistle of Barnabas 6.14 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: God replaces hearts of stone with hearts of flesh; Christ dwells in us.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:362

ἴδε οὖν, ἡμεῖς ἀναπεπλάσμεθα, καθὼς πάλιν ἐν ἑτέρῳ προφήτῃ λέγει· Ἰδού, λέγει κύριος, ἐξελῶ τούτων, τουτέστιν ὧν προέβλεπεν τὸ πνεῦμα κυρίου, τὰς λιθίνας καρδίας καὶ ἐμβαλῶ σαρκίνας· ὅτι αὐτὸς ἐν σαρκὶ ἔμελλεν φανεροῦσθαι καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν κατοικεῖν.

English · Claude translation

See, then, we have been formed anew, as he says again in another prophet: “Behold, says the Lord, I will take out of them” (that is, out of those whom the Spirit of the Lord foresaw) “the hearts of stone and put in hearts of flesh”; for he himself was to be manifested in the flesh and to dwell in us.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:362 · 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

Ezek 11:19 · quotation, high confidence
Ezek 36:26 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Barn. 6.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/14/).

Plain text

Barn. 6.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/14/).