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Epistle of Barnabas
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:1
So it is. But let us see whether the covenant which he sware to the fathers to give to the people — whether he has given it. He has given it. But they were not worthy to receive it because of their sins.
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:2
For the Prophet says, “And Moses was fasting on Mount Sinai, to receive the covenant of the Lord for the people, forty days and forty nights. And Moses received from the Lord the two tables, written by the finger of the hand of the Lord in the Spirit”; and Moses took them, and carried them down to give them to the people.
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:3
And the Lord said to Moses, “Moses, Moses, go down quickly, for thy people whom thou didst bring out of the land of Egypt have broken the Law. And Moses perceived that they had made themselves again molten images, and he cast them out of his hands, and the tables of the covenant of the Lord were broken.”
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:4
Moses received it, but they were not worthy. But learn how we received it. Moses received it when he was a servant, but the Lord himself gave it to us, as the people of the inheritance, by suffering for our sakes.
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:5
And it was made manifest both that the tale of their sins should be completed in their sins, and that we through Jesus, the Lord who inherits the covenant, should receive it, for he was prepared for this purpose, that when he appeared he might redeem from darkness our hearts which were already paid over to death, and given over to the iniquity of error, and by his word might make a covenant with us.
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:6
For it is written that the Father enjoins on him that he should redeem us from darkness and prepare a holy people for himself.
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:7
The Prophet therefore says, “I the Lord thy God did call thee in righteousness, and I will hold thy hands, and I will give thee strength, and I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light to the Gentiles, to open the eyes of the blind, and to bring forth from their fetters those that are bound and those that sit in darkness out of the prison house.” We know then whence we have been redeemed.
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:8
Again the Prophet says, “Lo, I have made thee a light for the Gentiles, to be for salvation unto the ends of the earth, thus saith the Lord the God who did redeem thee.”
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Epistle of Barnabas 14:9
And again the Prophet saith, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach the Gospel of grace to the humble, he sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim delivery to the captives, and sight to the blind, to announce a year acceptable to the Lord, and a day of recompense, to comfort all who mourn.”
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Epistle of Barnabas — Kirsopp Lake 1912 English translation
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Reading language: eng · Original language (catalog): Ancient source language(s)
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