Barnabas
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the apostolic Barnabas
in the texts
Stromata
Early Christian figure quoted mystically on the gift of divine wisdom, understanding, and endurance.
"But God, who is Lord of the whole world," he says, "may he give to you too wisdom and understanding, science, knowledge of his ordinances, endurance.
He says, then, that the sinners accomplish the activities corresponding to the demons, but does not say that the spirits themselves dwell in the soul of the unbeliever.
And how we say that the activities of the devil and the unclean spirits sow themselves into the soul of the sinner, I need not many words to present, having set out as witness the apostolic Barnabas (and he was of the seventy and a fellow-worker of Paul), saying somewhat thus, word for word:
De Pudicitia
Companion of Paul credited with an epistle 'to the Hebrews' denying renewed penitence to apostates.
For there is extant also the writing of Barnabas, entitled "to the Hebrews" — a man sufficiently authorized by God, as one whom Paul set beside himself in the tenor of abstinence: