KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

NEW VERSION MANUSCRIPT causing dissension. Life is for all those that keep the commandments. . .but others of them were double- minded, not hoping to be saved by reason of the deeds that they had done. . .[T]he Holy Spirit, which spake with thee in the form of the Church. . .In fair and seemly manner hast thou seen all things, as it were by a virgin.

The Epistle of Barnabas

This Apocryphal book sits between the book of Revelation and The Shepherd of Hermas in manuscript Aleph (Sinaiticus). It is written in the same handwriting as the rest of Aleph, by someone who apparently believed it to be inspired. Lightfoot, as translator, makes the following comments regarding this ’epistle’.

1. ’’The author is an uncompromising antagonist of Judaism." 2. "The author believed the ordinances [of] circumcision and the Sabbath. . .were never intended to be observed, but had a. . .mystical significance." 3. "It was written in Alexandria. . .[and] cited by Origen and Clement ."12