Monday, December 9, 2024

Passages from 1 Clement and Barnabas

      Therefore we should leave the empty and purposeless speculations, and we should come upon the famous and revered metric of what was handed down to us, and we should see what is beautiful and what is delightful and what is welcome in front of the One who made us. We should gaze intently at the blood of the Anointed and experience it like it is precious to His Father, because it was poured out because of our deliverance for all the world it brought down the charity of a change of mind. We should pass through into all the generations and should thoroughly learn  that with generation and generation the Master gave a place of a change of mind to those willing to turn around to Him. Noach preached a change of mind and they who obeyed were rescued. Yonah preached catastrophe to the Ninevites, and they who changed their minds about their errors propitiated the God having approached as supplicants and got deliverance, although being strangers to the God.
     The liturgical ministers of the charity of the God through the Holy Pneuma talked about a change of mind, and the Master of all things also Himself talked about a change of mind with a vow; “Because I live, Yahweh says, I don’t wish for the death of the malfunctioning person as I do their change of mind.” Applying also a good means of knowing: “Change your mind, house of Yisra’el, from your lawlessness; I said to the sons of My people: if your errors should be from the ground up to the sky, and if they are redder than a pomegranate seed and darker than goat-hair cloth, and you should turn around to Me from your whole heart and should say: “Father, I will listen to You like a holy people.” And in a different place He says in this way: “Wash and become clean, subtract the good for nothingness from your breaths of life directly in front of My eyes; stop from your good for nothingness, learn to do the beautiful, seek out judgment, rescue the one being wronged, decide for the orphan and set right the widow, and come here and we will dispute this.” He says: “And if your errors are like purplish red, I will whiten them like snow, and if they are like pomegranate seeds, I will whiten them like wool, and if you should want and should listen to Me, you will eat the good things of the ground, and if you shouldn’t want neither should listen to Me, a single edged sword will devour you; because the mouth of Yahweh talked these things.” Wishing then all His dear ones to share in a change of mind, He secured this by His omnipotent will.

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 There are then three doctrines of the Owner. 1) hope of life: the start and end of our realization; and 2) a right state of being: the start and end of judgment; 3) a love from mirth and great joy: a testimony by works of a right state of being. …
     Because it had manifested to us through the prophets that He craves neither sacrificial victims nor whole burnt offerings nor offerings, saying at the time in fact: “What is the multiplication of your sacrifices to Me? Yahweh says. I am full of burnt offerings, and I don’t wish for the hard fat of lambs and blood of bulls and goats, neither should you come to be seen by Me. Because who sought these things out from your hands? Don’t impose to tread on My court. If you should bring the finest wheat flour, it is for nothing. Incense is an abomination to Me. I am not held up by your Rosh Khodeshim and Shabbats.” He shut these things down so that the fresh Torah of our Owner Yeshua the Anointed, being without the yoke of force, should hold the offering not made by human beings. And He says again to them: “I wasn’t commanding your fathers going out from the land of Mizraim to offer to Me burnt offerings and sacrificial victims, was I? But instead I was commanding them this thing: Each one of you don’t bear a bad grudge against the person next to you with his heart, and don’t love a lying oath.” We are then obligated to apprehend with our senses, not being senseless, the means of knowing the goodness of our Father, because He tells to us to seek how we should approach Him, willing us not being led astray similar to those people. He speaks in this way then to us, “A sacrifice to the God is a heart having been shattered, a fragrant odor to Yahweh is a heart imagining the One having molded it.” We are then obligated to be precisely instructed, brothers, about our deliverance, so that the good for nothing one wouldn’t have made a loophole of deception within us to launch us away from our Life as from a sling.

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