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Epistle of Barnabas 3

Apostolic Teaching

He therefore made these things void so that the new law of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Being without the yoke of compulsion, might have an offering not made by human hands.

3And again he says to them: Did I command your fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

4To offer me burnt offerings and sacrifices?

5Was it not rather this that I commanded them: Let none of you hold a grudge in his heart against his neighbor.

6And do not love a false oath.

7We perceive then, being not without understanding.

8The good intention of our Father, because he speaks to us, desiring that we not err as they did.

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About Epistle of Barnabas

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.