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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 28, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 25.

3169.—Epistle of Barnabas

By Editor

Professor Totten quotes in one of his leaflets Barnabas 13:9, 10, Apocryphal New Testament. I would like to know through the SIGNS what claim the Apocryphal New Testament has, or is generally considered to have, to inspiration.

The Apocryphal New Testament consists of a mass of writings which began to spring up immediately after the generation of the apostles. Many of them of course contain expressions from the Bible, quotations perhaps from the words of Jesus, and some things of that kind to give them currency; but so far as the inspiration of these Scriptures is concerned, they have no claim upon us. Of the epistle of Barnabas it may be said that he is not its author; and (2) that it is of no authority.