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Catecharium

The Epistle of Barnabas

Chapter 17

2 sections

Traditionally attributed to Saint Barnabas

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

So far as possibility and simplicity allow an explanation to be given to you my soul hopes that none of the things which are necessary for salvation have been omitted, according to my desire.

For if I write to you concerning things present or things to come, you will not understand because they are hid in parables. This then suffices.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain.

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