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This book

An allegorical anti-Jewish-legal interpretation of the OT in the name of Barnabas (2nd c.). Included in Codex Sinaiticus after Revelation. The Muratorian Fragment and other lists debate whether it belongs with public Scripture or edifying reading.

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Extrabiblical text

Extrabiblical writings are listed separately from the 27 NT books. Each includes a public-domain English translation plus a scholarly witness catalog — Greek papyri and codices, major versional witnesses, and inventory cross-links (LDAB, Trismegistos, P.Oxy).

Witnesses are drawn from standard scholarly catalogs (CPG, LDAB, Repertorium Kirchenväter-Papyri, and related inventories). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition to show how confidently it is identified. Where fragment coverage is known, the list narrows by section — but this is still not a full critical apparatus, and scholarly totals often exceed our catalogued list.

Witness lists come from our extrabiblical catalog (Firestore + bundled JSON). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition. Where fragment coverage is documented — especially for Hermas, Didache, and Thomas — the list narrows by section. Versional witnesses without unit data still appear at every address. Counts are catalogued witnesses, not the full scholarly total.

Sources

English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.

Extrabiblical · canon discussions

An allegorical anti-Jewish-legal interpretation of the OT in the name of Barnabas (2nd c.).

Included in Codex Sinaiticus after Revelation. The Muratorian Fragment and other lists debate whether it belongs with public Scripture or edifying reading.

English text: Joseph Barber Lightfoot. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle_of_Barnabas_(Lightfoot_translation). Reading text is a public-domain English translation for orientation — not a critical edition of the Greek or Coptic original.

Witnesses are drawn from standard scholarly catalogs (CPG, LDAB, Repertorium Kirchenväter-Papyri, and related inventories). Each entry is tagged Verified, Approx., or Tradition to show how confidently it is identified. Where fragment coverage is known, the list narrows by section — but this is still not a full critical apparatus, and scholarly totals often exceed our catalogued list.

Epistle of Barnabas 21Extrabiblical writings are listed separately from the 27 NT books. Each includes a public-domain English translation plus a scholarly witness catalog — Greek papyri and codices, major versional witnesses, and inventory cross-links (LDAB, Trismegistos, P.Oxy).

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Full workspaceEpistle of Barnabas 21:1

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1It is good therefore to learn the ordinances of the Lord, as many as have been written above, and to walk in them. For he that doeth these things shall be glorified in the kingdom of God; whereas he that chooseth their opposites shall perish together with his works. For this cause is the resurrection, for this the recompense.2I entreat those of you who are in a higher station, if ye will receive any counsel of good advice from me, keep amongst you those to whom ye may do good. Fail not.3The day is at hand, in which everything shall be destroyed together with the Evil One. The Lord is at hand and his reward.4Again and again I entreat you; be good lawgivers one to another; continue faithful councilors to yourselves; take away from you all hypocrisy.5And may God, who is Lord of the whole world, give you wisdom, judgment, learning, knowledge of His ordinances, patience.6And be ye taught of God, seeking diligently what the Lord requireth of you, and act that ye may be found in the day of judgment.7But if you have any remembrance of good, call me to mind when ye practice these things, that both my desire and my watchfulness may lead to some good result. I entreat you asking it as a favor.8So long as the good vessel (of the body) is with you, be lacking in none of these things, but search them out constantly, and fulfill every commandment; for they deserve it.