He has curiously combined the sense of Gen.xvii.26, 27 with Gen.

xiv.
l4--in the pursuit of the four kings, it is said that Abraham armed his servants three hundred and eighteen men; Barnabas says that he circumcised his household, in all three hundred and eighteen men.

In several cases a resemblance may be noticed between Barnabas and the text of Cod.

A, but this does not appear consistently throughout.
It may be well to give a few examples of the extent to which Barnabas can carry his freedom of quotation.

Instances from the Book of Daniel should perhaps not be given, as the text of that book is known to have been in a peculiarly corrupt and unsettled state; so much so that, when translation of Theodotion was made towards the end of the second century, it was adopted as the standard text.