Epistle of Barnabas 6.19

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

Summary: We will rule creation when we are made perfect heirs.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:362–364

εἰ οὖν οὐ γίνεται τοῦτο νῦν, ἄρα ἡμῖν εἴρηκεν, πότε· ὅταν καὶ αὐτοὶ τελειωθῶμεν κληρονόμοι τῆς διαθήκης κυρίου γενέσθαι.

If, then, this does not happen now, he has told us when: when we ourselves are made perfect so as to become heirs of the Lord's covenant.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:362–364 · 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: Eschatology

Barn. 6.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/19/).

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Barn. 6.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/19/).