Epistle of Barnabas 9
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He speaketh moreover concerning the ears, how that He circumcised our hearing, that we should hear the word and believe.
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But moreover the circumcision, in which they have confidence, is abolished; for He hath said that a circumcision not of the flesh should be practised. But they transgressed, for an evil angel taught them.
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He saith unto them: Thus saith the Lord your God—here I find a commandment — sow not among thorns, be ye circumcised to your Lord.
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And what saith He? Circumcise the hardness of your heart, and harden not your neck. Take it again: Behold, saith the Lord, all the nations are uncircumcised in their foreskin, but this people is uncircumcised in heart.
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But thou wilt say: Yea, verily the people hath been circumcised for a seal. Nay, but so likewise is every Syrian and Arab and all the priests of the idols. Do all these then belong to their covenant? Moreover the Egyptians also practise circumcision.
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Learn therefore, children of love, concerning all things abundantly, that Abraham, who first appointed circumcision, looked forward in the spirit to Jesus, when he circumcised, having received the ordinances of three letters.
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For the scripture saith: And Abraham circumcised of his household eighteen males and three hundred. What then was the knowledge given unto him? Understand ye that He saith the eighteen first, and then after an interval three hundred.
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In the eighteen, I stands for ten, H for eight. There you have IH, the beginning of the name Jesus. And because the cross in the T was to have grace, He saith also three hundred. So He revealeth Jesus in the two letters, and in the remaining one the cross.
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He who placed the engrafted gift of His covenant in us knoweth; no man hath ever learnt from me a more genuine word; but I know that ye are worthy.
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