²²³ Cod. Sin. has, "But if not." Hilgenfeld's text of this confused passage reads as follows: "Who then can sanctify the day which God has sanctified, except the man who is of a pure heart? We are deceived (or mistaken) in all things. Behold, therefore," etc.

²²⁴ Cod. Sin. reads, "resting aright, we shall sanctify it, having been justified, and received the promise, iniquity no longer existing, but all things having been made new by the Lord."

²²⁵ Cod. Sin. reads, "Shall we not then?"

²²⁶ Isa. i. 13.

²²⁷ "Barnabas here bears testimony to the observance of the Lord's Day in early times."-Hefele.

²²⁸ We here follow the punctuation of Dressel: Hefele places only a comma between the clauses, and inclines to think that the writer implies that the ascension of Christ took place on the first day of the week.

²²⁹ That is, "they worshipped the temple instead of Him."

²³⁰ Isa. xl. 12.

²³¹ Isa. lxvi. 1.

²³² Comp. Isa. xlix. 17 (Sept.).

²³³ Cod. Sin. omits this.

²³⁴ Comp. Isa. v., Jer. xxv.; but the words do not occur in Scripture.

²³⁵ Dan. ix. 24-27; Hagg. ii. 10.

²³⁶ Cod. Sin. reads, "the calling."

²³⁷ Cod. Sin. gives the clauses of this sentence separately, each occupying a line.

²³⁸ That is, the man who is engaged in preaching the Gospel.

²³⁹ Such is the punctuation adopted by Hefele, Dressel, and Hilgenfeld.

²⁴⁰ Cod. Sin. reads, "my soul hopes that it has not omitted anything."

²⁴¹ Cod. Sin., "about things present or future." Hilgenfeld's text of this passage is as follows: "My mind and soul hopes that, according to my desire, I have omitted none of the things that pertain to salvation. For if I should write to you about things present or future," etc. Hefele gives the text as above, and understands the meaning to be, "points bearing on the present argument."

²⁴² Comp. 2 Cor. xii. 7.

²⁴³ Cod. Sin. reads, "of the present time of iniquity."

²⁴⁴ Cod. Sin. inserts, "Thou shalt fear Him that formed thee."

²⁴⁵ Cod. Sin. adds, "in all things."

²⁴⁶ Literally, "shalt not give insolence to thy soul."

²⁴⁷ "That is, while proclaiming the Gospel, thou shalt not in any way be of corrupt morals."-Hefele.

²⁴⁸ Isa. lxvi. 2. All the preceding clauses are given in Cod. Sin. in distinct lines.

²⁴⁹ Comp. James i 8.

²⁵⁰ Cod. Sin. has "thy name," but this is corrected as above.

²⁵¹ Cod. Sin. corrects to, "as thine own soul."

²⁵² Cod. Sin. has, "of God."

²⁵³ "Difficulties," or "troubles."

²⁵⁴ Cod. Sin. adds, "knowing that without God nothing happens."

²⁵⁵ Cod. Sin. has, "talkative," and omits the following clause.

²⁵⁶ Cod. Sin. has, "Thou shalt be subject (upotaghsh-untouched by the corrector) to masters as a type of God."

²⁵⁷ Inserted in Cod. Sin.

²⁵⁸ Cod. Sin. has, "they should not."

²⁵⁹ Comp. Eph. vi. 9.

²⁶⁰ Comp. Rom. viii. 29, 30.

²⁶¹ Cod. Sin. has, "and not call."

²⁶² Cod. Sin. has, "in that which is incorruptible."

²⁶³ Cod. Sin. has, "in things that are subject to death," but is corrected as above.

²⁶⁴ Or, "the persons of the saints." Cod. Sin. omits this clause, but it is added by the corrector.

²⁶⁵ The text is here confused in all the editions; we have followed that of Dressel. Cod. Sin. is defective. Hilgenfeld's text reads, "Thou shalt seek out every day the faces of the saints, either labouring by word and going to exhort them, and meditating to save a soul by the word, or by thy hands thou shalt labour for the redemption of thy sins"-almost identical with that given above.

²⁶⁶ Cod. Sin. omits this quotation from Matt. v. 42. or Luke vi. 30, but it is added by a corrector.

²⁶⁷ Cod. Sin. has, "hate evil."

²⁶⁸ Cod. Sin. inserts "and."

²⁶⁹ Cod. Sin. omits this clause: it is inserted by a corrector.

²⁷⁰ Literally, "of the Black One."

²⁷¹ Cod. Sin. joins "eternal" with way, instead of death.

²⁷² Cod. Sin. reads "transgressions."

²⁷³ Cod. Sin. omits "magic, avarice."

²⁷⁴ Cod. Sin. omits "therefore."

²⁷⁵ The things condemned in the previous chapter.

²⁷⁶ Cod. Sin. has "resurrections," but is corrected as above.

²⁷⁷ Cod. Sin. has, "lawgivers of good things."

²⁷⁸ Cod. Sin. omits the preposition.

²⁷⁹ Cod. Sin. omits this.

²⁸⁰ Cod. Sin. reads, "that ye may be found in the day of judgment," which Hilgenfeld adopts.

²⁸¹ Literally, "While yet the good vessel is with you," i.e., as long as you are in the body.

²⁸² Cod. sin. reads, "fail not in any one of yourselves," which is adopted by Hilgenfeld.

²⁸³ Corrected in Cod. Sin. to, "it is worthy."

²⁸⁴ Cod. Sin. omits this clause, but it is inserted by the corrector.

²⁸⁵ Cod. Sin. omits "Amen," and adds at the close, "Epistle of Barnabas."

²⁸⁶ See Amyot's translation, and a more modern one by De Maistre (Euvres, vol. ii. Paris, 1833). An edition of The Delays (the original, with notes by Professor Hackett) has appeared in America (Andover, circ., 1842), and is praised by Tayler Lewis.

²⁸⁷ He quotes Plato's reference, e.g., to the X.; but the Orientals delighted in such conceits. compare the Hebrew critics on the h

(in Gen. i. 4), on which see Nordheimer, Gram., vol. i. p. 7, New York, 1838.

²⁸⁸ It survives in the pulpits of Christendom-Greek, Latin, Anglican, Lutheran, etc.-to this day, in slightly different forms.

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