Epistle of Barnabas 6.14

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

Traditional ascription rejected: The letter names no author. From Clement of Alexandria (late second century) onward it was ascribed to Barnabas, Paul's companion (Acts 4:36), but its date and its hostility to Jewish practice make that unlikely; modern scholars treat it as anonymous.

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

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

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.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

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/).