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The Fathers

Barnabas

An epistle ca. 138

Who he was

  • As previously mentioned, it was more of basic theological articles dealing with linking the Old Testament to Christianity.
  • The first section (chapters 1-17) is of adogmatic character.
  • The second section (18-21) takes up morals and manifests no special bias. It describes, exactly like the Didache, the contrast between the way of life and that of death, but it calls one, that of light and the other that of darkness.

What he wrote

  • The author is a follower of Chiliasm: The six days of creation mean a period of six thousand years because a thousand years are like one day in the eyes of God.

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