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The Epistle of Barnabas

J. B. Lightfoot · Translated text

Barn. 17

So far as it was possible with all simplicity to declare it unto you, my soul hopeth that I have not omitted anything [of the matters pertaining unto salvation and so failed in my desire].

For if I should write to you concerning things immediate or future, ye would not understand them, because they are put in parables. So much then for this.

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