{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010353.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010353.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010353.htm","text":"As far as was possible, and could be done with perspicuity, I cherish the hope that, according to my desire, I have omitted none 1683 of those things at present [demanding consideration], which bear upon your salvation. For if I should write to you about things future, 1684 ye would not understand, because such knowledge is hid in parables. These things then are so.\nCod. Sin. reads, \u201cmy soul hopes that it has not omitted anything.\u201d\n147:1684\nCod. Sin., \u201cabout things present or future.\u201d Hilgenfeld\u2019s text of this passage is as follows: \u201cMy mind and soul hopes that, according to my desire, I have omitted none of the things that pertain to salvation. For if I should write to you about things present or future,\u201d etc. Hefele gives the text as above, and understands the meaning to be, \u201cpoints bearing on the present argument.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: BARNABAS: Chapter XVII.\u2014Conclusion of the...","type":"page"}