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Barnabas (attributed)

The Epistle of Barnabas

c. AD 70-135 · 21 chapters

An early letter that reads the Old Testament as pointing to Christ, ending with a "Two Ways" teaching that parallels the Didache. It was long attributed to Paul's companion Barnabas, but its author is unknown.

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Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive scans.