✝️THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF BARNABAS [Chapter I]✝️

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✝️THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF BARNABAS [Chapter I]✝️

Chapter I.

Chapter I.

Preface to the Epistle.

1 ALL happiness to you my sons and daughters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who loved us, in peace.

2 Having perceived abundance of knowledge of the great and  [note: Honestarum.] excellent  [note: Æquitatum, Δικαιωματων, righteous judgments.] laws of God to be in you, I exceedingly rejoice in your blessed and admirable  [note: Spiritibus, Disposition.] souls, because ye have so worthily received the grace which was  [note: Natural, Gr. ἐμφυτον. See chap. xix. ἐμφυτον δορεαν διδαχης: which the Lat. Int. renders. Naturale donum Doctrinæ. Comp. Jam. i. 21.] grafted in you.

3 For which cause I am full of joy, hoping the rather to he  [note: Liberari: Gr. at videtur σωθηναι.] saved; inasmuch as I truly see a spirit infused into you, from the  [note: Honesto from the Gr. καλης.] pure fountain of God:

4 Having this persuasion, and being fully convinced thereof, because that since I have begun to speak unto you, I have had a more than ordinary good success in the way of  [note: Comp. Psalm 119, 33, viz. either by preaching or fulfilling the same.] the law of the Lord which is in Christ.

5 For which cause  [note: Vid. Annot. Vos. in loc.] brethren, I also think verily that I love you above my own soul: because that therein dwelleth the greatness of faith and charity, as also the hope of that life which is to come.

6. Wherefore considering this, that if I shall take care to communicate to you a part of what I have received, it shall turn to my reward,  [note: Talibus spiritibus servienti. Usser.] that I have served such good souls; I gave diligence to write in a few words unto you; that together with your faith,  [note: Γνωσις.] knowledge also may be perfect.

7 There are therefore three  [note: Δογματα κυριου, Constitutions of the Lord.] things ordained by the Lord; the hope of life;  [note: Viz. faith and Charity. See before.] the beginning and the completion of it.

8 For the Lord hath both declared unto us, by the prophets those things that  [note: Namely, which we are to believe.] are past; and  [note: That is, which are to be hoped for, and end in love.] opened to us the beginnings of those that are to come.

9 Wherefore, it will behoove us,  [note: Given us to know.] as he has spoken, to come  [note: Honestinus et Altius: he more honestly and highly.] more holily, and nearer to his altar.

10 I therefore, not as a teacher, but as one  [note: Like yourselves.] of you, will endeavour to lay before you a few things by which you may, on  [note: In many things.] many accounts, become the more joyful.

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