Epistle of Barnabas 6.11

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

Summary: Forgiveness renewed us like newly formed children.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:360

ἐπεὶ οὖν ἀνακαινίσας ἡμᾶς ἐν τῇ ἀφέσει τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς ἄλλον τύπον, ὡς παιδίων ἔχειν τὴν ψυχήν, ὡς ἂν δὴ ἀναπλάσσοντος αὐτοῦ ἡμᾶς.

English · Claude translation

Since, then, he renewed us by the forgiveness of sins, he made us another type, so that we have the soul of children, as though he were forming us anew.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:360 · 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

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Barn. 6.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/11/).

Plain text

Barn. 6.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/11/).

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