Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Yes [it is even so]; but let us inquire if the Lord has\r\nreally given that testament which He swore to the fathers\r\nthat He would give<a id=\"r654\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f654\"><sup>[654]</sup></a> to the people. He did give it; but\r\nthey were not worthy to receive it, on account of their sins.\r\nFor the prophet declares, “And Moses was fasting forty\r\ndays and forty nights on Mount Sinai, that he might receive\r\nthe testament of the Lord for the people.”<a id=\"r655\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f655\"><sup>[655]</sup></a> And he received\r\nfrom the Lord<a id=\"r656\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f656\"><sup>[656]</sup></a> two tables, written in the spirit by the finger\r\nof the hand of the Lord. And Moses having received them,\r\ncarried them down to give to the people. And the Lord\r\nsaid to Moses, “Moses, Moses, go down quickly; for thy\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_126\">126</span>people hath sinned, whom thou didst bring out of the land\r\nof Egypt.”<a id=\"r657\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f657\"><sup>[657]</sup></a> And Moses understood that they had again<a id=\"r658\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f658\"><sup>[658]</sup></a>\r\nmade molten images; and he threw the tables out of his\r\nhands, and the tables of the testament of the Lord were\r\nbroken. Moses then received it, but they proved themselves\r\nunworthy. Learn now how <i>we</i> have received it. Moses, as\r\na servant,<a id=\"r659\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f659\"><sup>[659]</sup></a> received it; but the Lord himself, having suffered\r\nin our behalf, hath given it to us, that we should be the\r\npeople of inheritance. But He was manifested, in order\r\nthat they might be perfected in their iniquities, and that we,\r\nbeing constituted heirs through Him,<a id=\"r660\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f660\"><sup>[660]</sup></a> might receive the\r\ntestament of the Lord Jesus, who was prepared for this end,\r\nthat by His personal manifestation, redeeming our hearts\r\n(which were already wasted by death, and given over to the\r\niniquity of error) from darkness, He might by His word\r\nenter into a covenant with us. For it is written how the\r\nFather, about to redeem<a id=\"r661\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f661\"><sup>[661]</sup></a> us from darkness, commanded\r\nHim to prepare<a id=\"r662\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f662\"><sup>[662]</sup></a> a holy people for Himself. The prophet\r\ntherefore declares, “I, the Lord Thy God, have called Thee\r\nin righteousness, and will hold Thy hand, and will strengthen\r\nThee; and I have given Thee for a covenant to the people, for\r\na light to the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, and to\r\nbring forth from fetters them that are bound, and those that\r\nsit in darkness out of the prison-house.”<a id=\"r663\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f663\"><sup>[663]</sup></a> Ye perceive,<a id=\"r664\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f664\"><sup>[664]</sup></a> then,\r\nwhence we have been redeemed. And again, the prophet\r\nsays, “Behold, I have appointed Thee as a light to the\r\nnations, that Thou mightest be for salvation even to the ends\r\nof the earth, saith the Lord God that redeemeth thee.”<a id=\"r665\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f665\"><sup>[665]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_127\">127</span>And again, the prophet saith, “The Spirit of the Lord is\r\nupon me; because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel\r\nto the humble: He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted,\r\nto proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight\r\nto the blind; to announce the acceptable year of the Lord,\r\nand the day of recompense; to comfort all that mourn.”<a id=\"r666\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f666\"><sup>[666]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. xiv.—The Lord hath given us the testament which Moses received and broke."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-179"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2ce9ea659fff9617337ce65e475c0bb627dc9e99d18afcd2de7a95b20b58fa41","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f660","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. 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