{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now what do you suppose this to be a type of, that a command\r\nwas given to Israel, that men of the greatest wickedness<a id=\"r554\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f554\"><sup>[554]</sup></a>\r\nshould offer a heifer, and slay and burn it, and that then\r\nboys should take the ashes, and put these into vessels, and\r\nbind round a stick<a id=\"r555\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f555\"><sup>[555]</sup></a> purple wool along with hyssop, and that\r\nthus the boys should sprinkle the people, one by one, in order\r\nthat they might be purified from their sins? Consider how\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_115\">115</span>He speaks to you with simplicity. The calf<a id=\"r556\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f556\"><sup>[556]</sup></a> is Jesus: the\r\nsinful men offering it are those who led Him to the slaughter.\r\nBut now the men are no longer guilty, are no longer regarded\r\nas sinners.<a id=\"r557\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f557\"><sup>[557]</sup></a> And the boys that sprinkle are those that have\r\nproclaimed to us the remission of sins and purification of\r\nheart. To these He gave authority to preach the gospel,\r\nbeing twelve in number, corresponding to the twelve tribes<a id=\"r558\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f558\"><sup>[558]</sup></a>\r\nof Israel. But why are there three boys that sprinkle? To\r\ncorrespond<a id=\"r559\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f559\"><sup>[559]</sup></a> to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, because these\r\nwere great with God. And why was the wool [placed] upon\r\nthe wood? Because by wood Jesus holds His kingdom, so\r\nthat [through the cross] those believing on Him shall live\r\nfor ever. But why was hyssop joined with the wool? Because\r\nin His kingdom the days will be evil and polluted in\r\nwhich we shall be saved, [and] because he who suffers in\r\nbody is cured through the cleansing<a id=\"r560\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f560\"><sup>[560]</sup></a> efficacy of hyssop. And\r\non this account the things which stand thus are clear to us,\r\nbut obscure to them, because they did not hear the voice of\r\nthe Lord.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. viii.—The red heifer a type of Christ."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-173"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8c9e0191235f09de3a3f1c89c7f7470ec716cb6fd1c811da376e5af305eebf74","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-f560","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":"f560","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f560\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r560\">560</a>. </span>Thus the sense seems to require, and thus Dressel translates, though\r\nit is difficult to extract such a meaning from the Greek text.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f560","text_sha256":"b464ed00591664d6881165bcc709de250d023df017d90bbeba840569e1460802","verified":false,"work_id":null}