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Epistle of Barnabas
Epistle of Barnabas — Kirsopp Lake 1912 English translation
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:1
Understand therefore, children of gladness, that the good Lord made all things plain beforehand to us, that we should know him to whom we ought to give thanks and praise for everything.
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:2
If then the Son of God, though he was the Lord and was “destined to judge the living and the dead” suffered in order that his wounding might make us alive, let us believe that the Son of God could not suffer except for our sakes.
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:3
But moreover when he was crucified “he was given to drink vinegar and gall.” Listen how the priests of the Temple foretold this. The commandment was written, “Whosoever does not keep the fast shall die the death,” and the Lord commanded this because he himself was going to offer the vessel of the spirit as a sacrifice for our sins, in order that the type established in Isaac, who was offered upon the altar, might be fulfilled.
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:4
What then does he say in the Prophet? “And let them eat of the goat which is offered in the fast for all their sins.” Attend carefully, — “and let all the priests alone eat the entrails unwashed with vinegar.”
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:5
Why? Because you are going “to give to me gall and vinegar to drink” when I am on the point of offering my flesh for my new people, therefore you alone shall eat, while the people fast and mourn in sackcloth and ashes, to show that he must suffer for them.
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:6
Note what was commanded: “Take two goats, goodly and alike, and offer them, and let the priest take the one as a burnt offering for sins.”
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:7
But what are they to do with the other? “The other,” he says, “is accursed.” Notice how the type of Jesus is manifested:
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:8
“And do ye all spit on it, and goad it, and bind the scarlet wool about its head, and so let it be cast into the desert.” And when it is so done, he who takes the goat into the wilderness drives it forth, and takes away the wool, and puts it upon a shrub which is called Rachel, of which we are accustomed to eat the shoots when we find them in the country: thus of Rachel alone is the fruit sweet.
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:9
What does this mean? Listen: “the first goat is for the altar, but the other is accursed,” and note that the one that is accursed is crowned, because then “they will see him” on that day with the long scarlet robe “down to the feet” on his body, and they will say, “Is not this he whom we once crucified and rejected and pierced and spat upon? Of a truth it was he who then said that he was the Son of God.”
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:10
But how is he like to the goat? For this reason: “the goats shall be alike, beautiful, and a pair,” in order that when they see him come at that time they may be astonished at the likeness of the goat. See then the type of Jesus destined to suffer.
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Epistle of Barnabas 7:11
But why is it that they put the wool in the middle of the thorns? It is a type of Jesus placed in the Church, because whoever wishes to take away the scarlet wool must suffer much because the thorns are terrible and he can gain it only through pain. Thus he says, “those who will see me, and attain to my kingdom must lay hold of me through pain and suffering.”
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