Page "Epistle of Barnabas" Paragraph 11

In no other writing of that early time is the separation of the Gentile Christians from observant Jews so clearly insisted upon.

The covenant promises, he maintains, belong only to the Christians ( e. g. 4. 6-8 ), and circumcision, and the entire Jewish sacrificial and ceremonial system are, according to him, due to misunderstanding.

According to the author's conception, Jewish scriptures, rightly understood, contain no such injunctions ( chapters 9-10 ).

He is a thorough opponent to Jewish legalism, but by no means an antinomist.

At some points the Epistle seems quite Pauline, as with its concept of atonement.