On Illustrious Men

6. Barnabas, surnamed Joseph

VI. BARNABAS, SURNAMED JOSEPH arnabas from cyprus, surnamed Joseph the Levite,1 ordained apostle to the Gentiles with Paul,2 wrote one Epistle,3 valuable for the edification of the church, which is reckoned among the apocryphal writings.4 2. Afterwards he separated from Paul on account of John, a disciple also called Mark,5 but nonetheless exercised the work of preaching the Gospel laid upon him. notes 1. Acts 4.36. 2. Acts 15.22. 3. A. Lindemann and H. Paulsen, Die apostolischen Väter (Tübingen, 1992), 23–75; P. Prigent and R. A. Kraft, edd., SC 172 (Paris, 1971); J. C. Paget, The Epistle of Barnabas: Outlook and Background (Tübingen, 1994), 1–27, dating it in Nerva’s principate. 4. Eus., h.e. 3.25.4. 5. Acts 15.36–40. references Q 1, 85–92 — Dr, 29–30 — Cath 1, 1256, G. Bardy — DSp 1, 1245–47, J. Lebreton — EEC 12 , 167–68, E. Ferguson — EECh 1, 111–12, F. Scorza Barcellona — LThK 1, 1256–57, B. Kraft — LThK 23 , 18, F. R. Prostmeier — NCE 2, 103, J. P. Audet — RAC 1, 1212–17, J. Schmid — ANRW II, 27, 1, 159–207, L. W. Barnard — TRE 5, 238–41, K. Wengst — Vielhauer, Geschichte, 599–612 VII. LUKE THE EVANGELIST uke, a physician of Antioch,1 as his writings indicate , was not unskilled in the Greek language.2 An adherent of the apostle Paul and companion of all his journeying, he wrote a Gospel, concerning whom the same Paul ON ILLUSTRIOUS MEN 15 ...