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Epistle of Barnabas, on Gen 2:1
Epistle of Barnabas · c. A.D. 132
Gen 2:1 · Douay-Rheims
“So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.”
On this verse:
“Further, He says to them, "Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure." Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. And when He had manifested Himself, He ascended into the heavens.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.