(WAM) . New Testament From Sinaitic Manuscript H.T. Anderson

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flowing with milk and honey.
9 What saith the knowledge? Learn ye. Hope, it saith, upon Jesus, who is about to be manifested unto
you in the flesh. For man is but earth which suffers; for, from the face of the ground was made the
moulding of Adam.
10 What then meaneth he when he saith, Into the good land which floweth with milk and honey?
Blessed be the Lord, brethren, who hath put into you wisdom and knowledge of his secret things. For the
prophet speaketh a parable from the Lord. Who shall understand, except he that is wise and skilful and
that loveth his Lord?
11 Since, therefore, having renewed us by the remission of our sins, he hath made us of a new character,
he willeth that we should have the souls of children, inasmuch as it is indeed he who hath formed us
anew.
12 For the scripture saith concerning us, that he saith unto the Son, Let us make man after our own
image and according to our likeness; and let them rule over the beasts of the earth, and the fowls of
heaven, and the fishes of the sea. And the Lord said, when he saw how excellent our form was, Increase
and multiply and replenish the earth. These things he saith unto the Son.
13 Again I will show unto thee how the Lord speaketh unto us, since he hath made a second fashioning
in these last days; the Lord saith, Behold I make the last even as the first. For to this purpose did the
prophet preach. Enter ye into the land flowing with milk and honey, and have dominion over it.
14 Behold now we have been formed again, even as he saith again in another prophet: Behold, saith the
Lord, I will take out from these, that is out of those whom the Spirit of the Lord foresaw, the hearts of
stone, and will put into them hearts of flesh, because he himself was about to be manifested in the flesh
and to dwell among us.
15 For the habitation of our heart is a temple holy unto the Lord.
16 For the Lord saith again, Whereby shall I appear before the Lord my God and be glorified? He saith
too, I will give thanks unto thee in the assembly, in the midst of my brethren; I will sing unto thee in the
midst of the assembly of the saints. We are, therefore, those whom he brought into the good land.
17 What, then, meaneth the milk and honey? It is because a child is kept alive, first with honey,
afterwards with milk. So we, too, being quickened by faith in his promise and by his word, shall live and
rule over the earth.
18 And we said previously, And let them increase and multiply and rule over the fish. Who then is he
who is able to rule over the beasts, the fish, and fowls of heaven? For we ought to perceive that to rule
belongeth to authority, so that a man by giving commands may exercise lordship.
19 If, therefore, this doth not take place now, he hath told us when it will; even when we ourselves have
been made perfect, so that we become heirs of the covenant of the Lord.
Barnabas 7
1 Ye perceive, therefore, beloved children, that our good Lord hath manifested unto us all things
beforehand, to the end that we should know whom we ought to praise, returning thanks for all things.
2 If, therefore, the Son of God, being he who is the Lord and who is about to judge the quick and the
dead, suffered, to the end that his stripes might make us live, let us believe that the Son of God could not
suffer except on our account.
3 But being crucified, he was given to drink of vinegar and gall. How, then, did the priests of the temple
signify concerning this? Now, the commandment is written in this wise: Whosoever shall not fast on the
fast, he shall die the death, the Lord hath commanded it. Since he also was about to offer the vessel that
contained his spirit as a sacrifice, in order that the type might be fulfilled which was given by the
offering of Isaac at the altar,
4 what saith he in the book of the prophet? And let them eat of the goat which is offered on the fast for
the sins of all. Attend ye diligently thereto. And let the priests alone eat of the unwashed entrails with
vinegar.
5 With what signification? Because ye will one day give me to drink of vinegar and gall, when I am
about to offer up my flesh for my new people, eat ye it alone, while the people fast and lament in
sackcloth and ashes. He commanded this in order that he might show that he must needs suffer at their
hands.
6 How, then, did he give his commands? Attend ye. Take ye two goats, fair and like each other, and
offer them up. And let the priest take one of them as a whole burnt offering for sin.
7 But what shall they do with the other? Let the other, he saith, be accursed. Now attend ye, how the
type of Jesus is made manifest.
8 And do ye all spit upon it and pierce it, and put scarlet wool around its head, and so let it be cast out
into the wilderness. And when this hath been done, he who beareth the goat leadeth it out into the
wilderness, and taketh away the wool and placeth it upon a bush, which is called rachel, the shoots of [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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