Epistle of Barnabas 11
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But let us enquire whether the Lord took any care to foreshadow the water of baptism and the cross. Concerning the water, it is written in reference to the Israelites that they should not receive the baptism that bringeth remission of sins, but should procure another for themselves.
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For the prophet saith: Be astonished, O heaven, at this, and let the earth shudder the more, for this people hath done two wicked things: they have abandoned me, the fount of life, and have digged for themselves a pit of death.
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Is my holy mountain of Sinai a desert rock? For ye shall be as the fledglings of a bird, which flutter about when they are taken away from the nest.
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And again the prophet saith: I will go before thee and make level mountains and break down gates of brass and crush bars of iron, and will give thee treasures dark, concealed, unseen, that they may know that I am the Lord God.
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And thou shalt dwell in a lofty cave of a strong rock. And His water shall be sure; ye shall see the King in his glory, and your soul shall muse on the fear of the Lord.
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And again He saith in another prophet: And He who shall do these things shall be as the tree that is planted by the courses of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its proper season; and its leaf shall not fall off, and all things whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
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Not so are the ungodly; not so, but even as the chaff which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.
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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand up in judgment, neither sinners in the council of the righteous; for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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Mark how He hath described at once the water and the cross. For this is the meaning. Blessed are they that set their hope on the cross, and go down into the water.
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For He speaketh of the reward in its proper season; then, saith He, I will repay. But now when He saith: The leaves shall not fall off, this He meaneth, that every word that shall come forth from you through your mouth in faith and love shall be for the conversion and hope of many.
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