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Barnabas
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Introductory Note to the Epistle of Barnabas
[1524] Cod. Sin. has “But we said above.”
[1526] These are specimens of the “Gnosis,” or faculty of bringing out the hidden spiritual meaning of Scripture referred to before. Many more such interpretations follow.
Chapter VII.—Fasting, and the goat sent away, were types of Christ.
[1527] Cod. Sin. reads “temple,” which is adopted by Hilgenfeld.
[1528] Not to be found in Scripture, as is the case also with what follows. Hefele remarks, that “certain false traditions respecting the Jewish rites seem to have prevailed among the Christians of the second century, of which Barnabas here adopts some, as do Justin (Dial. c. Try. 40) and Tertullian (adv. Jud. 14; adv. Marc. iii. 7).”
[1529] Cod. Sin. has “by them.”
[1530] Cod. Sin. reads, “what commanded He?”
[1531] Cod. Sin. reads, “one as a burnt-offering, and one for sins.”
[1532] Cod. Sin. reads, “type of God,” but it has been corrected to “Jesus.”
[1533] In Cod. Sin. we find “Rachel.” The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.
[1534] Thus the Latin interprets: others render “shoots.”
[1535] Cod. Sin. has “thus” instead of “this.”
[1536] Literally, “was.”
[1537] The text is here in great confusion, though the meaning is plain. Dressel reads, “For how are they alike, and why [does He enjoin] that the goats should be good and alike?” The Cod. Sin. reads, “How is He like Him? For this that,” etc.
[1538] Cod. Sin. here inserts “the goat.”
[1539] Cod. Sin. reads, “for as he who … so, says he,” etc.
[1540] Comp. Acts xiv. 22.
Chapter VIII.—The red heifer a type of Christ.
[1541] Literally, “men in whom sins are perfect.” Of this, and much more that follows, no mention is made in Scripture.
[1542] Cod. Sin. has “upon sticks,” and adds, “Behold again the type of the cross, both the scarlet wool and the hyssop,”—adopted by Hilgenfeld.
[1543] Cod. Sin. has, “the law is Christ Jesus,” corrected to the above.
[1544] The Greek text is, “then no longer [sinful] men, no longer the glory of sinners,” which Dressel defends and Hilgenfeld adopts, but which is surely corrupt.
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