Epistle of Barnabas 7
(Traduction française en cours — texte anglais affiché)
1
Understand therefore, children of gladness, that the good Lord made all things plain beforehand to us, that we might know to whom we ought in all things to give thanks and praise.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
2
If then the Son of God, being Lord, and future Judge of quick and dead, suffered that His wound might give us life, let us believe that the Son of God could not suffer except for our sakes.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
3
But moreover when crucified He had vinegar and gall given Him to drink. Hear how on this matter the priests of the temple have revealed. Seeing that there is a commandment in scripture: Whosoever shall not fast the fast, let him surely die — the Lord commanded, because He was in His own person about to offer the vessel of the Spirit as a sacrifice for our sins.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
4
That the type also which was given in Isaac who was offered upon the altar might be fulfilled.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
5
What then saith He in the prophet? And let them eat of the goat that is offered at the fast for all their sins. Attend carefully: and let all the priests alone eat the entrails unwashed with vinegar.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
6
Wherefore? Since ye are to give me, who am to offer my flesh for the sins of my new people, gall with vinegar to drink, eat ye alone, while the people fasteth and waileth in sackcloth and ashes.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
7
That He might show that He must suffer at their hands.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
8
Attend to the commandments which He gave. Take two goats, fair and alike, and offer them, and let the priest take the one as a burnt-offering for sins.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
9
But the other one — what must they do with it? Accursed, saith He, is the one. Give heed how the type of Jesus is manifested.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
10
And do ye all spit upon it and goad it, and bind the scarlet wool about its head, and so let it be cast into the wilderness.
⚠ Texte monarchique:
11
And when it is so done, he that taketh the goat into the wilderness leadeth it and taketh the wool, and putteth it upon a bush.
⚠ Texte monarchique: