Early Church Writings — historically valuable Christian documents, presented as noncanonical writings rather than Scripture.

Epistle of Barnabas

Pseudo-Barnabas

Chapter XVIII.—Second part of the epistle. The two ways

But let us now pass to another sort of knowledge and doctrine. There are two ways of doctrine and authority, the one of light, and the other of darkness. But there is a great difference between these two ways. For over one are stationed the light-bringing angels of God, but over the other the angels 1685 of Satan. And He indeed (i.e., God) is Lord for ever and ever, but he (i.e., Satan) is prince of the time 1686 of iniquity.

Notes

  1. Comp. 2 Cor. xii. 7. ↩
  2. Cod. Sin. reads, "of the present time of iniquity." ↩

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume I, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; revised by A. Cleveland Coxe. Public domain. Electronic text courtesy of CCEL.