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The Epistle of Barnabas
An early Christian · 2nd century
An early Christian teacher reads the Law and the prophets as pointing to Christ, and ends with the Two Ways, the way of light and the way of darkness.
It was long credited to St. Barnabas, the companion of St. Paul, and some early churches kept it next to the Scriptures.
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About this edition
From the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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