{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Seeing that the divine fruits<a id=\"r459\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f459\"><sup>[459]</sup></a> of righteousness\r\nabound among you, I rejoice exceedingly and\r\nabove measure in your happy and honoured spirits, because\r\nye have with such effect received the engrafted<a id=\"r460\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f460\"><sup>[460]</sup></a> spiritual\r\ngift. Wherefore also I inwardly rejoice the more, hoping to\r\nbe saved, because I truly perceive in you the Spirit poured\r\nforth from the rich Lord<a id=\"r461\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f461\"><sup>[461]</sup></a> of love. Your greatly desired\r\nappearance has thus filled me with astonishment over you.<a id=\"r462\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f462\"><sup>[462]</sup></a>\r\nI am therefore persuaded of this, and fully convinced in my\r\nown mind, that since I began to speak among you I understand\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_102\">102</span>many things, because the Lord hath accompanied me\r\nin the way of righteousness. I am also on this account bound<a id=\"r463\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f463\"><sup>[463]</sup></a>\r\nby the strictest obligation to love you above my own soul,\r\nbecause great are the faith and love dwelling in you, while\r\nyou hope for the life which He has promised.<a id=\"r464\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f464\"><sup>[464]</sup></a> Considering\r\nthis, therefore, that if I should take the trouble to communicate\r\nto you some portion of what I have myself received, it\r\nwill prove to me a sufficient reward that I minister to such\r\nspirits, I have hastened briefly to write unto you, in order\r\nthat, along with your faith, ye might have perfect knowledge.\r\nThe doctrines of the Lord, then, are three:<a id=\"r465\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f465\"><sup>[465]</sup></a> the hope of life,\r\nthe beginning and the completion of it. For the Lord hath\r\nmade known to us by the prophets both the things which are\r\npast and present, giving us also the first-fruits of the knowledge<a id=\"r466\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f466\"><sup>[466]</sup></a>\r\nof things to come, which things as we see accomplished,\r\none by one, we ought with the greater richness of faith<a id=\"r467\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f467\"><sup>[467]</sup></a> and\r\nelevation of spirit to draw near to Him with reverence.<a id=\"r468\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f468\"><sup>[468]</sup></a> I\r\nthen, not as your teacher, but as one of yourselves, will set\r\nforth a few things by which in present circumstances ye may\r\nbe rendered the more joyful.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. i.—After the salutation, the writer declares that he would communicate to his brethren something of that which he had himself received."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-166"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a5fe214371e034cb219d9ffe4ba457aa1e2563a0d0278363f50e64406c9ce16a","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-f464","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. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f464","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f464\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r464\">464</a>. </span>Literally, “in the hope of His life.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f464","text_sha256":"6a6b5d62a59e7000b4c693bb2f6111238c6944a0e4726c4abd2c7f9e3295ef3f","verified":false,"work_id":null}