αν Κύριο διὰ τέτο περιέτεμε τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν καὶ τὰς καρδίας, ἵνα συνίωμεν ταῦτα. Καὶ μὴν ὅτ ̓ ἂν λέγη, Οὐ φάγη τὸν ἀετὸν, τὸν ὀξύπλερον καὶ τὸν ἵκτινον, καὶ τὸν κόρακα, ἐ κολληθήσῃ, φησὶν, ἐδὲ ὁμοιωθήσῃ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τέτοις, οἳ ἐκ ἴσασι διὰ πίνε καὶ ἱδρῶτος πορίζειν ἑαυτοῖς τὴν τροφὴν, ἀλλ ̓ ἐν ἁρπαγῇ καὶ ἀνομία βιᾶσιν. becaufe he bath circumcifed our ears and hearts, that we should underland thefe things. And when he fays, Thou shalt not eat the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the kite, nor the crow, he means, Thou halt not affociate with, nor be like to thofe men, who know not how by their labour and fweat to get them felves food, but live in rapine and oppreflion. This is all in Barnabas's Epiftle, Ch. X. 7.) Ejufdem libri, p. 577, 578. ̓Αλλὰ καὶ Βαρνάβας, ὁ καὶ αὐτὸς συγκηρύξας τῷ ἀποσόλῳ κατὰ τὴν διακονίαν τῶν ἐθνῶν τὸν λόγον, ̓Απλέςερον, φησὶν, ὑμῖν γράφω ἵνα συνίη]ε. Εἶθ ̓ ὑποβας, ἤδη σαφέσερον γνωτικῆς παραδόσεως ἴχνω παρατιθέμενο λέγει. Τί λέγει ὁ ἄλλος προφήτης Μωϋσῆς αὐτοῖς ; Ἰδὲ τάδε λέγει Κύ- ριῷ ὁ Θεὸς, Εἰσέλθετε εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν ἀγαθὴν, ἣν ὤμοσεν Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς, ὁ Θεὸς Αβραάμ, καὶ Ἰσαάκ, καὶ Ἰακώβ· καὶ κατακληρονομήσατε αὐτὴν γῆν ῥέεσαν γάλα So alfo Barnabas, who was a fellow-preacher with the Apoftle in his miniftry of the Word among the Gentiles, faid, I write to you more plainly, that ye may understand. And a little after, citing a more plain inftance out of the wifeft of all books, he adds, What fays another Prophet, Mofes, to them ? Enter ye into the good land, which the Lord God, the God of Abraham, and Ifaac, and Jacob hath fworn (to give you), and ye hall inherit a land flowing with milk and honey b. Confider now VOL. II. : Exod. iii. 7, 8, E e what καὶ μέλι. Τί λέγει ἡ γνῶσις, what the meaning of this is s it is as if he faid, Depend upon Jefus, who will hereafter be manifefted in the flesh. For man is the earth which suffers; for the firf man was made out of the fuperficies of the earth. But what does he mean by the land flowing with milk and honey? Brethren, bleed be our Lord, who has given us wifdom and underlanding in his fecrets; for the Prophet fays, Who fall underftand "the hard fayings of the Lord? νοήσει, εἰ μὴ σοφὸς καὶ ἐπισήμων καὶ ἀγαπῶν τὸν Κύριον αὐτᾶ ; Epift. Barnab. c. 6. These are all the places in which Clemens Alexandrinus exprefsly cites any part of this Epiftle ". He mentions indeed the name of Barnabas in another place (viz. Stromat. 1. 6. p. 646.); but Cotelerius and Dr. Grabe have conjectured, that it was through a defect in memory, the words which he cites being in the first Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Corinthians, Ch. XLVIII. and not in any part of Barnabas's Epiftle (fee above, Vol. I. Part II. Ch. VIII. p. 161.); which, as I have faid in the place cited, feems probable, unless we will choose rather to suppose, that the name of Barnabas was by fome busy scribe inferted in the room of Clemens; which one would be the more inclined to believe, because few a Ifaiah xl. 13. Prov. i. 6. Ecclef. i. 1o. are the places which Cotelerius fuppofes to be referred to here. There feems to me fomething wanting in the copies both of Barnabas and Clemens here ; there being no answer given to the preced ing queftion. Clemens in Pædagog. 1. 2. c. το. p. 188. alludes to Barnabas, ch. x. but does not name him. • Teftim. præfix. Patr. Apoft. P. 3. d Spicileg. Patr. tom. i. p. 303. lines after this Clemens Romanus is cited, and a paffage taken out of his Epistle to the Corinthians, ch. xx. and, if I am not much mistaken, Clemens Alexandrinus in another place (viz. Stromat. lib. 1. p. 289.) citing this very paffage, does exprefsly afcribe it to Clemens Romanus, and fubjoins the very next words following in that Epiftle of his to the Corinthians, ch. xlviii. Which puts the matter beyond all doubt, that Clemens Alexandrinus's copies are here corrupted, and the name of Barnabas falfely inferted here instead of Clemens. 2. ORIGEN has cited the Epiftle of Barnabas. Γέγραπται δὴ ἐν τῇ Βαρνάβα It is true indeed, it is written. in the Catholick Epiftle of Barnabas (and perhaps that is Cellus a handle to reprefent the very place, which gave the Apofles as the vileft and moft infamous perfons) that Jefus chofe thofe to be his own Apoftles, who were exceeding great finners. Epift. Barnab. Ch. V. This paffage out of Barnabas, with what precedes it in Origen, from those words "Ti Tos durœpérois, pag. 48. lin. 10. to thofe Oun da, pag. 49. lin. 42. is alfo in the extracts of Gregory Nazianzen and Bafil out of Origen's works, intitled Philocalia. (See Ch. XVIII.) 2.) De Princip. lib. 3. c. 2. fol. 144. Eadem quoque Barnabas in Epiftola fua declarat, cum duas vias effe dicit, unam lucis, alteram tenebrarum ; quibus et præeffe certos quoque Angelos dicit: viæ quidem lucis Angelos Dei, tenebrarum au To the fame purpose Barnabas fpeaks in his Epiftle, when he faith, That there are two ways, the one of light, the other of darkness, over both which certain Angels prefide; viz. the Angels of God over the E e 2 way tem viæ Angelos Satana. Cap. XVII. Barnab. way of light, and the angels of Satan over the way of darknefs. 3. EUSEBIUS. 1.) Hift. Ecclef. lib. 3. c. 25. Ἐν τοῖς νόθοις κατατετάχθω ή φερομένη Βαρνάβα ἐ πιςολή. 2.) Idem Hift. Κέχρηται δ ̓ ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ταῖς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀντιλεγομένων γραφῶν μαρτυρίαις, τῆς τε λεγομένης Σολομῶντο Σοφίας, καὶ τῆς Ἰησᾶ τῆ Σιράχ, καὶ τῆς πρὸς Ἑβραίες επιςολῆς, τῆς τε Βαρνάβα, καὶ Κλήμεντος, και Ιέδα. The Epiftle which is carried about under the name of Barnabas, is to be ranked among the books which are fpurious. Eccl. l. 6. c. 13. Befides he (viz. Clemens Alexandrinus) in his Stromata takes fome teftimonies out of thole Scriptures which are rejected by fome; viz. The Wif dom of Solomon, The Widom of the Son of Syrach, The Eῥille to the Hebrews, The Epiftle of Barnabas, and Clemens and Fude. 3.) Hift. Eccl. lib. 6. c. 14. Ἐν δὲ ταῖς Ὑποτυπώσεσι πάσης τῆς ἐνδιαθήκε γραφής πεποίηται διηγήσεις, μήδε τὰς αντιλεγομένας παρελθών· τὴν Ιέδα λέγω καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς Καθολικὰς Επιςολας, τήν τε Βαρνάβα καὶ τὴν Πέτρε λεγομένην ̓Αποκάλυψιν. In his book called Hypotopofes 4. JEROME. 1.) Catal. Vir. Barnabas Cyprius, qui et Jofeph Levites, cum Paulo gen tium Apoftolus ordinatus, unam ad ædificationem Ecclefiæ pertinentem Epiftolam compofuit, quæ inter Apocryphas Scripturas legitur. 2.) Idem Comment. Vitulum autem qui pro nobis immolatus eft, et multa Scripturarum loca, et præcipue Barnabæ Epiftola, quæ habetur inter Scripturas Apocryphas, nominat. ordained Apostle of the Gen- in Ezek. xliii. 19. xix.) which was facrificed for us. Epift. Barnab. Ch. VIII. 3.) Idem, adv. Pelag. lib. 3. c. 1. Ignatius (lege Barnabas) vir apoftolicus et martyr fcribit audacter; Elegit Dominus Apoftolos, qui fuper omnes homines peccatores erant. b Ignatius (he meant, if he did not write, Barnabas) an apoftolick man and a martyr, boldly writes, The Lord chofe his Apofiles, who were finners above all men. Cotelerius and others fuppofe Jerome by fault of memory to have mistaken Ignatius for Barnabas, the paffage being fo clear in the latter, and no where to be found in the writings of the former; though Dr. Bernard, after Archbishop Usher, by an ingenious conjecture fuppofes the mistake to have happened from this, viz. that the Epiftles of Barnabas and Ignatius were joined in one volume, and by that means Jerome cited what he knew was in the volume where Barnabas was, though it happened not to be in Barnabas. |