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Epistle of Barnabas 6.2

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

Summary: Christ is the chosen cornerstone of Zion.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:358

οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι ὑμεῖς πάντες ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσεσθε, καὶ σὴς καταφάγεται ὑμᾶς. καὶ πάλιν λέγει ὁ προφήτης, ἐπεὶ ὡς λίθος ἰσχυρὸς ἐτέθη εἰς συντριβήν· Ἰδού, ἐμβαλῶ εἰς τὰ θεμέλια Σιὼν λίθον πολυτελῆ, ἐκλεκτόν, ἀκρογωνιαῖον, ἔντιμον.

English · Claude translation

Woe to you, for you will all grow old like a garment, and the moth will devour you.” And again the prophet says, since he was set as a strong stone for crushing: “Behold, I will lay in the foundations of Zion a precious stone, chosen, a cornerstone, honored.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:358 · 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.
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Barn. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/2/).

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Barn. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/2/).

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