The Epistle of Barnabas: from the Sinaitic manuscript of the bible

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William and Norgate, 1880 - 63 pages

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Page 36 - As for the ungodly, it is not so with them : but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.
Page 46 - I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
Page 42 - So she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said to her: Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.
Page 48 - It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page xviii - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 46 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page xix - But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

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