# Epistle of Barnabas 6.9

- Author: Anonymous
- Work: [Epistle of Barnabas](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/) (*Epistula Barnabae*)
- Date: ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) (disputed)
- 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 (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/9/

Summary: The “good land” is Jesus in the flesh; man is suffering earth.

## Greek text

τί δὲ λέγει ἡ γνῶσις; μάθετε. ἐλπίσατε, φησίν, ἐπὶ τὸν ἐν σαρκὶ μέλλοντα φανεροῦσθαι ὑμῖν Ἰησοῦν. ἄνθρωπος γὰρ γῆ ἐστιν πάσχουσα· ἀπὸ προσώπου γὰρ τῆς γῆς ἡ πλάσις τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἐγένετο.

## English translation (Claude)

But what does knowledge say? Learn: “Hope,” it says, “in Jesus, who is about to be manifested to you in the flesh.” For man is earth that suffers; for the forming of Adam was from the face of the earth.

## Scripture references

- Gen 2:7: allusion, medium confidence

## Translation notes

- “Knowledge” (γνῶσις): the deeper sense of scripture; here the author gives his allegorical reading of the promised land as Christ's flesh.

## Citation (SBL)

Barn. 6.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/6/9/).