The Epistle of Barnabas
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Contents (21 chapters)
- 1. Chapter I.—After the salutation, the writer declares that he would communicate to his brethren something of that which he had himself received.
- 2. Chapter II.—The Jewish sacrifices are now abolished.
- 3. Chapter III.—The fasts of the Jews are not true fasts, nor acceptable to God.
- 4. Chapter IV.—Antichrist is at hand: let us therefore avoid Jewish errors.
- 5. Chapter V.—The new covenant, founded on the sufferings of Christ, tends to our salvation, but to the Jews’ destruction.
- 6. Chapter VI.—The sufferings of Christ, and the new covenant, were announced by the prophets.
- 7. Chapter VII.—Fasting, and the goat sent away, were types of Christ.
- 8. Chapter VIII.—The red heifer a type of Christ.
- 9. Chapter IX.—The spiritual meaning of circumcision.
- 10. Chapter X.—Spiritual significance of the precepts of Moses respecting different kinds of food.
- 11. Chapter XI.—Baptism and the cross prefigured in the Old Testament.
- 12. Chapter XII.—The cross of Christ frequently announced in the Old Testament.
- 13. Chapter XIII.—Christians, and not Jews, the heirs of the covenant.
- 14. Chapter XIV.—The Lord hath given us the testament which Moses received and broke.
- 15. Chapter XV.—The false and the true Sabbath.
- 16. Chapter XVI.—The spiritual temple of God.
- 17. Chapter XVII.—Conclusion of the first part of the epistle.
- 18. Chapter XVIII.—Second part of the epistle. The two ways.
- 19. Chapter XIX.—The way of light.
- 20. Chapter XX.—The way of darkness.
- 21. Chapter XXI.—Conclusion.
Source: CCEL