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Daniel's 70th Week
Quotes from Early Christianity

Epistle of Barnabas, c. AD 80-120

The quote at the beginning of this next citation is not in Scripture. The Ante-Nicene Fathers editors give Daniel 9:24-27 and Haggai 2:10 as references, but neither passage says that the temple of God shall be built at the end of any week. It is, however, likely that the writer learned the teaching that the church is the promised new temple from his church, whatever city he was in. In the second century, it was commonly taught that the Church, as spiritual Israel, received the prophetic promises of the Jewish prophets.

For it is written, "And it shall come to pass, when the week is completed, the temple of God shall be built in glory in the name of the Lord." I find, therefore, that a temple does exist. Learn, then, how it shall be built in the name of the Lord. Before we believed in God, the habitation of our heart was corrupt and weak, as being indeed like a temple made with hands. For it was full of idolatry, and was a habitation of demons, through our doing such things as were opposed to [the will of] God. But it shall be built, observe ye, in the name of the Lord, in order that the temple of the Lord may be built in glory. How? Learn [as follows]. Having received the forgiveness of sins, and placed our trust in the name of the Lord, we have become new creatures, formed again from the beginning. Wherefore in our habitation God truly dwells in us. How? His word of faith; His calling of promise; the wisdom of the statutes; the commands of the doctrine; He himself prophesying in us; He himself dwelling in us; opening to us who were enslaved by death the doors of the temple, that is, the mouth; and by giving us repentance introduced us into the incorruptible temple.

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