Epistle of Barnabas: from the Sinaitic manuscript of the Bible
The Epistle of Barnabas seems to claim notice in any- Life of the Apostle Paul: firsts because the two apostles had at one time, lived in close friendship and it in part explains why at a later time PauFs feelings towards Barnabas were changed; and secondly, because it offers the earliest example of the Gnosticism which was creeping into the Christian Churches, very much to the trouble of Paul. But when I wished to mention this Epistle in my work on 'The Journeys and Epistles of the Apostle Paul/' I was met with the difficulty of not knowing of any English translation that I thought satisfactory. Hence this publication.
Who by the Apostles was surnamed Barnabas, was an Israelite of the island of Cyprus, and of the tribe of Levi. He is first mentioned in Acts iv. 36, as selling his land in Cyprus and laying the money at the Apostles' feet as a contribution to the young Church.
We next hear of him as bringing Saul, who had lately been persecuting the Church, to the Apostles who distrusted him, and assuring them that Saul's conversion was real.
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