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	Barnabas - LoveToKnow 1911
		The fact that at Lystra the natives styled Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, while suggesting that Barnabas was the man of nobler mien, proves that Paul was the chief speaker (xiv.
		But what Barnabas did see with full reasoned conviction, he was staunch in upholding; thus he upheld the general cause of Gentile freedom from the obligation of circumcision (as distinct from perfect religious equality with Jewish believers) at the Jerusalem conference (Acts xv.).
		This being so, the epistle was probably written, not to Alexandria, but rather by a "teacher" of the Alexandrine Church to some body of Christians in Lower Egypt among whom he had recently been visiting.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Barnabas (2037 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabas
		Barnabas 11:6 And again He saith in another prophet; And He that doeth these things shall be as the tree that is planted by the parting streams of waters, which shall yield his fruit at his proper season, and his leaf shall not fall off, and all things whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
		Barnabas 15:1 Moreover concerning the Sabbath likewise it is written in the Ten Words, in which He spake to Moses face to face on Mount Sinai; And ye shall hallow the Sabbath of the Lord with pure hands and with a pure heart.
		Barnabas 16:10 For he that desireth to be saved looketh not to the man, but to Him that dwelleth and speaketh in him, being amazed at this that he has never at any time heard these words from the mouth of the speaker, nor himself ever desired to hear them.
	reluctant-messenger.com /barnabas.htm (8419 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabas (translation J.B. Lightfoot) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Barnabas 2:1 Seeing then that the days are evil, and that the Active One himself has the authority, we ought to give heed to ourselves and to seek out the ordinances of the Lord.
		Barnabas 3:6 To this end therefore, my brethren, He that is long-suffering, foreseeing that the people whom He had prepared in His well-beloved would believe in simplicity, manifested to us beforehand concerning all things, that we might not as novices shipwreck ourselves upon their law.
		Barnabas 18:2 And the one is the Lord from all eternity and unto all eternity, whereas the other is Lord of the season of iniquity that now is. Barnabas 19:1 This then is the way of light, if anyone desiring to travel on the way to his appointed place would be zealous in his works.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /text/barnabas-lightfoot.html (7741 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabus
		Barnabas 1:5 if it shall be my care to communicate to you some portion of that which I received, it shall turn to my reward for having ministered to such spirits, I was eager to send you a trifle, that along with your faith ye might have your knowledge also perfect.
		Barnabas 1:6 Well then, there are three ordinances of the Lord; *the hope of life, which is the beginning and end of our faith; and righteousness, which is the beginning and end of judgment; love shown in gladness and exultation, the testimony of works of righteousness..
		Barnabas 3:6 To this end therefore, my brethren, He that is long-suffering, foreseeing that the people whom He had prepared in His well-beloved would believe in simplicity, manifested to us beforehand concerning all things, that we might not as novices shipwreck ourselves upon their law.
	www.housechurch.org /miscellaneous/early_barnabus.html (8157 words)

	THE EPISTLE OF ST. BARNABAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Barnabas 3:6 - To this end therefore, my brethren, He that is long-suffering, foreseeing that the people whom He had prepared in His well-beloved would believe in simplicity, manifested to us beforehand concerning all things, that we might not as novices shipwreck ourselves upon their law.
		Barnabas 11:6 - And again He saith in another prophet; And He that doeth these things shall be as the tree that is planted by the parting streams of waters, which shall yield his fruit at his proper season, and his leaf shall not fall off, and all things whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
		Barnabas 15:1 - Moreover concerning the Sabbath likewise it is written in the Ten Words, in which He spake to Moses face to face on Mount Sinai; And ye shall hallow the Sabbath of the Lord with pure hands and with a pure heart.
	www.trinity327.com /faith/barnabas.html (8327 words)

	Epistle of Barnabas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		James Carleton Paget, The Epistle of Barnabas: Outlook and Background (Delft Univ Pr, 1994).
		Since Barnabas 16:3 refers to the destruction of the temple, Barnabas must be written after 70 C.E. It must be written before its first undisputable use in Clement of Alexandria, ca.
		For example, the reference to gall and vinegar in Barnabas 7:3, 5 seems to preserve an early stage of tradition that influenced the formation of the passion narratives in the Gospel of Peter and the synoptic gospels.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /barnabas.html (643 words)

	Letter of Barnabas at Scroll Publishing Co.
		The catholic Epistle of Barnabas, so called, is anonymous, and omits all allusion to the name or residence of the readers.
		The Epistle was first cited by Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, as a work of the apostolic Barnabas, who plays so prominent a part in the early history of the church.
		The Epistle does not come up to the position and reputation of Barnabas, the senior companion of Paul, unless we assume that he was a man of inferior ability and gradually vanished before the rising star of his friend from Tarsus.
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	The Epistle of Barnabas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		J.A. Kleist, The Didache, The Epistle of Barnabas, the Epistle and Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, the Fragments of Papius, the Epistle of Diogentus.
		J.N.B. Carleton Paget, "Barnabas 9:4: A Peculiar Verse on Circumcision," Vigiliae Christianae 45.3 (1991): 242-254.
		Jonathan A. Draper, "Barnabas and the Riddle of the Didache Revisited," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 58 (1995): 89-113.
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /barnabas.html (454 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabas - Charles Bigg
		We may place the Epistle then with tolerable confidence between the fall of Jerusalem and the death of Vespasian, that is to say between 70 and 79, and perhaps not long after the earlier of these two dates.
		What Barnabas desires to show is that the old scriptures by innumerable dark hints had prepared the Church for that very catastrophe which had occurred.
		Barnabas writes like a converted Rabbi; he finds his knowledge in foolish juggling with words, letters, numbers, or in obscure Rabbinical traditions; he has no philosophy or history, and leaves the Law as great a puzzle as he found it.
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /barnabas-bigg.html (2418 words)

	‘Barnabas, His Gospel, and its Credibility (II)
		Barnabas was a native of Cyprus; the people of Cyprus were famous for the excellence of the Greek they spoke; and Hebrews is written in the best Greek in the New Testament.
		It can thus be concluded that Barnabas was recognized as a scholar and as a writer from the early centuries of Christianity, otherwise one of the best documents of the New Testament could not have been attributed to him by a number of celebrities.
		However, the nature of both Hebrews and the Epistle of Barnabas is hard to reconcile with the conservative tendencies of Barnabas as indicated in Galatians, and the identification of Barnabas with Jerusalem in the book of Acts.
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	Epistle of Barnabas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The epistle was highly regarded in the early church, included in the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Hierosolymitanus, and believed authentic and canonical by Clement, Origen and Jerome, though Eusebius regarded it as apocryphal.
		However, the general message of the epistle was largely supplanted by the Epistle to the Hebrews, which has also been attributed to Barnabas.
		The companion of Paul was most likely not the author of the Epistle of Barnabas, given its date of composition and hostility toward Mosaic law.
	www.maplenet.net /~trowbridge/barnabas.htm (228 words)

	Epistle of Barnabas
		Barnabas 7:8And do ye all spit upon it and goad it, and place scarlet wool about its head, and so let it be cast into the wilderness.
		Barnabas 15:1Moreover concerning the Sabbath likewise it is written in the Ten Words, in which He spake to Moses face to face on Mount Sinai; And ye shall hallow the Sabbath of the Lord with pure hands and with a pure heart.
		Barnabas 19:1This then is the way of light, if anyone desiring to travel on the way to his appointed place would be zealous in his works.
	projext-epistle-barnabas.blogspot.com (7956 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Epistle of Barnabas
		Epistle of Barnabas contains no clue to its author nor to those for whom it was intended.
		epistle is characterized by the use of exaggerated allegory.
		Epistle of Barnabas was not regarded by everyone as an inspired writing.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02299a.htm (1442 words)

	Saints of June 11
		Barnabas was sent to Antioch, Syria, to investigate the community of non-Jewish believers there (Acts 11:22ff), and brought Paul there from Tarsus.
		Epistle of Barnabas was long attributed to him, but modern scholarship now attributes it to an Alexandrian Christian between 70 and 100 AD.
		Barnabas is especially venerated in Florence, Italy, and Cyprus.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0611.htm (923 words)

	The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Epistle of Barnabas
		Writing at a time when the level of antagonism between church and synagogue still ran high, the anonymous author of the "epistle" is concerned to prove that the death of Christ on the cross is a sacrifice that fulfills a plan set forth in the Old Testament (9.7-9).
		In short, the Epistle of Barnabas is a good and early example of what became the dominant method of interpreting the Bible in the early and medieval church.
		It is generally agreed that the author was from Alexandria, in view of his fondness of the allegorical approach for which Alexandria was well-known and the fact that all the earliest evidence for the existence of the document derives from there.
	www.ntcanon.org /Epistle_of_Barnabas.shtml (364 words)

	The epistle of Barnabas.
		Barnabas 16.3-4 both refers to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 and expects the temple to be rebuilt, an unlikely prospect after Hadrian erected a pagan temple on the site in about 135.
		Barnabas the Cyprian, who is also Joseph the Levite, ordained as an apostle to the gentiles with Paul, wrote one epistle, valuable for the edification of the church, which is reckoned among the apocryphal writings.
		It is true that the obvious interpretation of the words pointed to three several kings belonging to the ten who are mentioned just before, whereas the so-called Barnabas found the three combined in one of the ten together with his sons and colleagues in the kingship.
	www.textexcavation.com /epistlebarnabas.html (1581 words)

	THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS
		The Epistle of Barnabas is a Greek writing containing twenty-one chapters, preserved in complete form in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament.
		It is traditionally ascribed to the Barnabas who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, although some ascribe it to another apostolic father of the same name, a "Barnabas of Alexandria," or simply to an unknown early Christian teacher.
		Barnabas intends to impart to his readers the perfect “gnosis” (special knowledge) that they may perceive that Christians are the only true covenant people of God.
	www.forerunner.com /churchfathers/X0026_06._EPISTLE_OF_BARNA.html (5989 words)

	How the Gospel of Barnabas Survived
		Some say that the Gospel of Barnabas was accepted as a Canonical Gospel in the Churches of Alexandria till 325 C.E. Iranaeus (130-200) wrote in support of pure monotheism and opposed Paul for injecting into Christianity doctrines of the pagan Roman religion and Platonic philosophy.
		In the fourth year of Emperor Zeno (478 C.E.), the remains of Barnabas were discovered and there was found on his breast a copy of the Gospel of Mathew, written by Barnabas in his own hand.
		Joseph Barnabas was a Jew of the tribe of Levi and of the Island of Cyprus ‘who became one of the earliest Christian disciples at Jerusalem.
	essenes.net /gbarnabas.htm (728 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The document which is always known as the Epistle of Barnabas is, like I. Clement, really anonymous, and it is generally regarded as impossible to accept the tradition which ascribes it to the Barnabas who was a companion of S. Paul, though it is convenient to continue to use the title.
		It is either a general treatise or was intended for some community in which Alexandrian ideas prevailed, though it is not possible to define either its destination, or the locality from which it was written, with any greater accuracy.
		in which Barnabas followed Polycarp, but the pages containing the end of the latter and beginning of the former were lost, and a copyist who did not observe this mereged the one into the other.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /barnabas-intro.html (494 words)

	Epistle of Barnabas
		Barnabas 2:10 Thus then speaketh He to us; The sacrifice unto God is a broken heart, the smell of a sweet savor unto the Lord is a heart that glorifies its Maker.
		Barnabas 5:12 To this end therefore He endured.
		Barnabas 6:15 For a holy temple unto the Lord, my brethren, is the abode of our heart.
	www.carm.org /lost/barnabas.htm (7960 words)

	Gospel of Barnabas
		This should not be confused with the Epistle of Barnabas which dates between 70 and 135 AD.
		The epistle may or may not have been written by the Barnabas of Acts, but it is quoted by early church fathers like Clement of Alexandria, who about 170 AD, stated the epistle was authentic.
		The Quran condemns eating pork but "Barnabas" says "that which entereth into the man defileth not the man, but that which cometh out of the man defileth the man" (32).
	www.biblefacts.org /church/gosbarn.html (257 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabas
		Barnabas had family in Jerusalem, his sister Mary was there, also Mary's son Mark, the future Evangelist.
		Barnabas travelled as a missionary with Paul and Mark, through Syria, at Antioch of Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, at Derbe, in Asia Minor at Perge in Pamphylia, Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, and Rome.
		Barnabas' epistle was probably written sometime between 90 and 100.
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	The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Epistle to the Laodiceans
		When this epistle has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read the epistle from Laodicea.
		The epistle appears in more than 100 manuscripts of the Latin Vulgate (including the oldest, the celebrated codex Fuldensis, 546 CE), as well as in manuscripts of early Albigensian, Bohemian, English, and Flemish versions.
		The Epistle to the Laodiceans is included in all 18 German Bibles printed prior to Luther's translation, beginning with the first German Bible, issued by Johann Mental at Strassburg in 1488.
	www.ntcanon.org /Epistle_to_the_Laodiceans.shtml (1163 words)

	The General Epistle of Barnabas
		Barnabas was filled with the Spirit, had the gift of exhortation, and was an inspiring influence (Acts 11:23-26); he was trustworthy, suited for missionary work and suffered persecution with Paul (Acts 11:29, 30, 13:2, 50).
		Barnabas may interpret all apocalyptic prophecies as spiritual analogies, for he says the ten kings will "reign in the heart," misquoting Daniel.
		The details mentioned by Barnabas are not found in the canonical scriptures, so either we can assume them to have been practiced, or else he strayed from the facts.
	ministries.tliquest.net /theology/apocryphas/nt/barnab.htm (6215 words)

	epistle_of_barnabas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Shepherd of Hermas Apocalypse of Peter Epistle of Barnabas (Alexandria, 70-135 CE) The Epistle of Barnabas is a theological tract (not an epistle) that discusses questions that have confronted the...
		Up to 1843 eight manuscripts of the Epistle of Barnabas were known to be in Western libraries.
		The Epistle of Barnabas 1 Chapter I.-After the Salutation, the Writer Declares that He Would Communicate to His Brethren Something of that Which He Had Himself Received.
	epistle_of_barnabas.networklive.org (292 words)

	The Epistle of Barnabas
		The Epistle of Barnabas, which is of undetermined authorship and circumstances of origin, but must date, at the latest, from the first half of the second century, deals with the same problem in a manner which is unique in preserved early Christian literature.
		Barnabas shows relatively little interest in subjects which held the attention of much other early Christian literature -- the life and teachings of Jesus, the work of the Spirit, the organization and institutions of the Church.
		Epistle of Pseudo-Aristeas The so-called Epistle of Aristeas to Philocrates, ed by H.St J. Thackeray as an appendix to H.B. Swete, Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rels/rak/publics/barn/barndiss01.htm (12510 words)

	What is the gospel of Barnabas?
		A.D. The Epistle of Barnabas was written in the late 1st century, but probably not by the Barnabas named in the New Testament.
		The gospel of Barnabas, however, has absolutely no apostolic support and was written 1400 years after the time of Barnabas.
		The gospel of Barnabas also says that Jesus was born when Pilate was governor (but history records Pilate becoming governor in A.D. 26 or 27).
	www.gotquestions.org /gospel-of-Barnabas.html (319 words)

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