If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments.
Barnabas IX (The Apostle) (That the commands of Moses concerning clean and unclean beast, &c., were all designed for a spiritual signification.) 1. B ut why did Moses say; Ye shall not eat of the swine, neither the eagle nor the hawk; nor the crow; nor any fish that has not a scale upon him? I answer, that in the spiritual sense, he comprehended three doctrines, that were to be gathered from thence. 2. Besides which he says to them in the book Deuteronomy, And (I will give my statutes unto this people. Wherefore it is not the command of God, that they should not eat these things; but Moses in the spirit spake unto them. 3. Now the sow he forbad them to eat; meaning thus much; thou shalt not join thyself unto such persons as are like unto swine; who whilst they live in pleasure, forget their God; but when any want pinches them, then they know the Lord; as the sow when she is full knows not her master; but whe...