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The ultimate aim of these lectures is to reach a point of view from which the literary character and the historical value of the Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, can be justly estimated. Some theories have suggested that it was a Jewish manual of instructions for proselytes which had later been modified, with references to the Sermon on the Mount and to the Shepherd of Hermas...

have hardly yet been altogether superseded by that larger view of the truth which the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews still waits to bring home to the Church in days when the historical criticism of the ancient Scriptures has restated the old problem in a scarcely less disquieting form. The date of the Epistle of Barnabas remains an open question. Bishop Lightfoot inclined to place it as early as A.D. 79, Dr Harnack as late as A.D. 130; but neither of them would speak with confidence. The tone

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