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Chapter
VII.—Arrival of Barnabas at Rome.
At length meetings began to be held in various
places in the city, and this subject to be discussed in conversation,
and to be a matter of wonder who this might be who had appeared, and
what message He had brought from God to men; until, about the same
year, a certain man, standing in a most crowded place in the city, made
proclamation to the people, saying: “Hear me, O ye citizens
of Rome. The Son of God is now in the regions of Judæa,
promising eternal life to every one who will hear Him, but upon
condition that he shall regulate his actions according to the will of
Him by whom He hath been sent, even of God the Father. Wherefore
turn ye from evil things to good, from things temporal to things
eternal. Acknowledge that there is one God, ruler of heaven and
earth, in whose righteous sight ye unrighteous inhabit His world.
But if ye be converted, and act according to His will, then, coming to
the world to come, and being made immortal, ye shall enjoy His
unspeakable blessings and rewards.”536
| 536 [In Homily I. a
warning of future punishment is added.—R.] | Now, the man who spoke these things
to the people was from the regions of the East, by nation a Hebrew, by
name Barnabas, who said that he himself was one of His disciples, and
that he was sent for this end, that he should declare these things to
those who would hear them.537
| 537 [The narrative
in the Homilies is fuller; the preacher at Rome is not named;
Clement attempts to go to Judæa, is driven to Alexandria, and
meets Barnabas there; the occurrences here given in chaps. 8–11
are placed in Alexandria, whence Clement goes, after the departure of
Barnabas, to Cæsarea where he meets Peter (comp. chap.
12).—R.] | When I
heard these things, I began, with the rest of the multitude, to follow him, and to hear what he
had to say. Truly I perceived that there was nothing of dialectic
artifice in the man, but that he expounded with simplicity, and without
any craft of speech, such things as he had heard from the Son of God,
or had seen. For he did not confirm his assertions by the force
of arguments, but produced, from the people who stood round about him,
many witnesses of the sayings and marvels which he related.
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