Barnabas also combines passages, though not quite to such an extent or so elaborately as Clement, and he too inserts no mark of division.

We will give an example of this, and at the same time of his paraphrastic method of quotation:-- _Barnabas_ c.

ix.
[Greek: [kai ti legei;] Peritmaethaete to sklaeron taes kardias humon, kai ton trachaelon humon ou mae sklaerunaete.] _Jer._ iv.

3, 4 _and_ vii.

26.
[Greek: Peritmaethaete to theo humon, kai peritemesthe taen sklaerokardian humon ...