Footnotes
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Clement I, Pope, Hermas, active 2nd century, Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, Papias, Saint, Bishop of Hierapolis, Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna, Crombie, Frederick, Donaldson, James, Sir, and Roberts, Alexander
Source notes
521. Not found in Scripture. Comp. Isa.xl. 13; Prov. i. 6. Hilgenfeld, however, changes the usual punctuation, which places a colon after prophet, and reads, “For the prophet speaketh the parable of the Lord. Who shall understand,” etc.
522. The Greek is here very elliptical and obscure: “His Spirit” is inserted above, from the Latin.
523. Gen.i. 26.
524. Cod. Sin. has “our fair formation.”
525. Gen.i. 28.
526. Cod. Sin. inserts, “the Lord says.”
527. Cod. Sin. has “I make.”
528. Not in Scripture, but comp. Matt.xx. 16, and 2 Cor. v. 17.
529. Ex.xxxiii. 3.
530. Ezek.xi. 19, xxxvi. 26.
531. Cod. Sin. inserts “Himself;” comp. John i. 14.
532. Comp. Eph.ii. 21.
533. Comp. Ps.xlii. 2.
534. Cod. Sin. omits “He says.”
535. Cod. Sin. omits “in the midst.”
536. Ps.xxii. 23; Heb. ii. 12.
537. Cod. Sin. has, “But we said above.”
538. Gen.i. 28.
539. These are specimens of the “Gnosis,” or faculty of bringing out the hidden spiritual meaning of Scripture referred to before. Many more such interpretations follow.
540. Cod. Sin. reads “temple,” which is adopted by Hilgenfeld.
541. Not to be found in Scripture, as is the case also with what follows. Hefele remarks, that “certain false traditions respecting the Jewish rites seem to have prevailed among the Christians of the second century, of which Barnabas here adopts some, as do Justin (Dial. c. Try. 40) and Tertullian (adv. Jud. 14; adv. Marc. iii. 7).”
542. Cod. Sin. has “by them.”
543. Cod. Sin. reads, “what commanded He?”
544. Cod. Sin. reads, “one as a burnt-offering, and one for sins.”
545. Cod. Sin. reads, “type of God,” but it has been corrected to “Jesus.”
546. In Cod. Sin. we find “Rachel.” The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.
547. Thus the Latin interprets; others render “shoots.”
548. Cod. Sin. has “thus” instead of “this.”
549. Literally, “was.”
550. The text is here in great confusion, though the meaning is plain. Dressel reads, “For how are they alike, and why [does He enjoin] that the goats should be good and alike?” The Cod. Sin. reads, “How is He like Him? For this that,” etc.
551. Cod. Sin. here inserts “the goat.”
552. Cod. Sin. reads, “for as he who ... so, says he,” etc.
553. Comp. Acts xiv. 22.
554. Literally, “men in whom sins are perfect.” Of this, and much more that follows, no mention is made in Scripture.
555. Cod. Sin. has “upon sticks,” and adds, “Behold again the type of the cross, both the scarlet wool and the hyssop,”—adopted by Hilgenfeld.
556. Cod. Sin. has, “the law is Christ Jesus,” corrected to the above.
557. The Greek text is, “then no longer [sinful] men, no longer the glory of sinners,” which Dressel defends and Hilgenfeld adopts, but which is surely corrupt.
558. Literally, “in witness of the tribes.”
559. “In witness of.”
560. Thus the sense seems to require, and thus Dressel translates, though it is difficult to extract such a meaning from the Greek text.