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Daily Gospel Commentary

Wednesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time
Commentary of the day
Epistle of Barnabas (c. 130)
§ 18, 20 & 21, translated by J.B. Lightfoot

Turn away from hypocrisy and evildoing

   There are two ways of teaching and of power, the one of light and the other of darkness; and there is a great difference between the two ways… But the way of the Black One is crooked and full of a curse. For it is a way of eternal death with punishment wherein are the things that destroy men's souls--idolatry, boldness, exhalation of power, hypocrisy, doubleness of heart, adultery, murder, plundering, pride, transgression, treachery, malice…, covetousness, absence of the fear of God; persecutors of good men, hating the truth…, paying no heed to the widow and the orphan…, not pitying the poor man…, oppressing him that is afflicted…

It is good therefore to learn the ordinances of the Lord, as many as have been written above, and to walk in them. For he that does these things shall be glorified in the kingdom of God; whereas he that chooses their opposites shall perish together with his works. For this cause is the resurrection, for this the recompense. I entreat you: keep amongst you those to whom you may do good. Fail not.

18 posted on 08/25/2015 10:59:58 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" [Jn 3:5].

St. Thomas Aquinas

19 posted on 08/25/2015 11:04:50 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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