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diff --git a/1582.txt b/1582.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf2a5af --- /dev/null +++ b/1582.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31547 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament + +Author: Anonymous + +Posting Date: August 20, 2012 [EBook #1582] +Release Date: December, 1998 +First Posted, October 21, 1998 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, NEW TESTAMENT *** + + + + +Produced by Dennis McCarthy and Tad Book + + + + + + + + + + +THE HOLY BIBLE + + + + +Translated from the Latin Vulgate + + +Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, +and Other Editions in Divers Languages + + +THE OLD TESTAMENT +First Published by the English College at Douay +A.D. 1609 & 1610 + +and + +THE NEW TESTAMENT +First Published by the English College at Rheims +A.D. 1582 + + +With Annotations + + +The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with +the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner +A.D. 1749-1752 + + + +VOLUME III: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST + + + + +CREDITS + + +Without the assistance of many individuals and groups, this text of the +Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible would not be available for the +Project Gutenberg collection. 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Dennis McCarthy +assisted Mr. Book and transcribed selections from the first editions +included as appendices. + + + + +HISTORY + + +This three volume e-text set comes from multiple editions of Challoner's +revised Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible. The division of the Old +Testaments into two parts follows the two tome format of the 1609/1610 +printing of the Old Testament. In 1568 English exiles, many from +Oxford, established the English College of Douay (Douai/Doway), Flanders, +under William (later Cardinal) Allen. In October, 1578, Gregory Martin +began the work of preparing an English translation of the Bible for +Catholic readers, the first such translation into Modern English. +Assisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow, Thomas Worthington, and +William Reynolds who revised, criticized, and corrected Dr. Martin's +work. The college published the New Testament at Rheims (Reims/Rhemes), +France, in 1582 through John Fogny with a preface and explanatory notes, +authored chiefly by Bristol, Allen, and Worthington. Later the Old +Testament was published at Douay in two parts (1609 and 1610) by Laurence +Kellam through the efforts of Dr. Worthington, then superior of the +seminary. The translation had been prepared before the appearance of the +New Testament, but the publication was delayed due to financial +difficulties. The religious and scholarly adherence to the Latin Vulgate +text led to the less elegant and idiomatic words and phrases often found +in the translation. In some instances where no English word conveyed the +full meaning of the Latin, a Latin word was Anglicized and its meaning +defined in a glossary. Although ridiculed by critics, many of these +words later found common usage in the English language. Spellings of +proper names and the numbering of the Psalms are adopted from the Latin +Vulgate. + +In 1749 Dr. Richard Challoner began a major revision of the Douay and +Rheims texts, the spellings and phrasing of which had become increasingly +archaic in the almost two centuries since the translations were first +produced. He modernized the diction and introduced a more fluid style, +while faithfully maintaining the accuracy of Dr. Martin's texts. This +revision became the 'de facto' standard text for English speaking +Catholics until the twentieth century. It is still highly regarded by +many for its style, although it is now rarely used for liturgical +purposes. The notes included in this electronic edition are generally +attributed to Bishop Challoner. + +The 1610 printing of the second tome of the Old Testament includes an +appendix containing the non-canonical books 'Prayer of Manasses,' 'Third +Booke of Esdras,' and 'Fourth Booke of Esdras.' While not part of +Challoner's revision, the 1610 texts are placed in the appendices of +Vol. II of this e-text set. Also included are the original texts of two +short books, 'The Prophecie of Abdias' (Vol. II) and 'The Catholike +Epistle of Iude the Apostle' (Vol. III), to give the reader a sense of +the language of the first editions in comparison to the Challoner +revision. Further background on the Douay-Rheims version may be found in +a selection from the preface to the 1582 edition and the original +glossary included in the appendices of Vol. III. + + + + +CONTENTS + + +The New Testament + + Gospel According to St. Matthew + Gospel According to St. Mark + Gospel According to St. Luke + Gospel According to St. John + Acts of the Apostles + Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans + First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians + Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians + Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians + Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians + Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians + Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians + First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians + Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians + First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy + Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy + Epistle of St. Paul to Titus + Epistle of St. Paul to Philemon + Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews + Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle + First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle + Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle + First Epistle of St. John the Apostle + Second Epistle of St. John the Apostle + Third Epistle of St. John the Apostle + Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle + Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle + + +Appendices + + The Catholike Epistle of Iude the Apostle + + The Preface to the Reader + Hard Vvordes Explicated + + + + + +THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW + + + +Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, +that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: +in that profession his name is Levi. (Luke 5.27, and Mark 2.14.) He was +the first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel, and that in Hebrew +or Syro-Chaldaic which the Jews in Palestine spoke at that time. The +original is not now extant; but it was translated in the time of the +Apostles into Greek, that version was of equal authority. He wrote +about six years after the Lord's Ascension. + + + +Matthew Chapter 1 + + +The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin. + +1:1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the +son of Abraham: + +1:2. Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas +and his brethren. + +1:3. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. +And Esron begot Aram. + +1:4. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson +begot Salmon. + +1:5. And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And +Obed begot Jesse. + +1:6. And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, +of her that had been the wife of Urias. + +1:7. And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot +Asa. + +1:8. And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot +Ozias. + +1:9. And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot +Ezechias. + +1:10. And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon +begot Josias. + +1:11. And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration +of Babylon. + +1:12. And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot +Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. + +1:13. And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim +begot Azor. + +1:14. And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot +Eliud. + +1:15. And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan +begot Jacob. + +1:16. And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born +Jesus, who is called Christ. + +The husband of Mary. . .The Evangelist gives us rather the pedigree of +St. Joseph, than that of the blessed Virgin, to conform to the custom +of the Hebrews, who in their genealogies took no notice of women; but +as they were near akin, the pedigree of the one sheweth that of the +other. + +1:17. So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen +generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are +fourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ +are fourteen generations. + +1:18. Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother +Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found +with child, of the Holy Ghost. + +1:19. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing +publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. + +1:20. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the +Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear +not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in +her, is of the Holy Ghost. + +1:21. And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name +Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. + +1:22. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord +spoke by the prophet, saying: + +1:23. Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and +they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with +us. + +1:24. And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had +commanded him, and took unto him his wife. + +1:25. And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: +and he called his name Jesus. + +Till she brought forth her firstborn son. . .From these words Helvidius +and other heretics most impiously inferred that the blessed Virgin Mary +had other children besides Christ; but St. Jerome shews, by divers +examples, that this expression of the Evangelist was a manner of +speaking usual among the Hebrews, to denote by the word until, only +what is done, without any regard to the future. Thus it is said, +Genesis 8. 6 and 7, that Noe sent forth a raven, which went forth, and +did not return till the waters were dried up on the earth. That is, did +not return any more. Also Isaias 46. 4, God says: I am till you grow +old. Who dare infer that God should then cease to be: Also in the first +book of Machabees 5. 54, And they went up to mount Sion with joy and +gladness, and offered holocausts, because not one of them was slain +till they had returned in peace. That is, not one was slain before or +after they had returned. God saith to his divine Son: Sit on my right +hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool. Shall he sit no longer +after his enemies are subdued? Yea and for all eternity. St. Jerome +also proves by Scripture examples, that an only begotten son, was also +called firstborn, or first begotten: because according to the law, the +firstborn males were to be consecrated to God; Sanctify unto me, saith +the Lord, every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of +Israel, etc. Ex. 13. 2. + + + +Matthew Chapter 2 + + +The offerings of the wise men: the flight into Egypt: the massacre of +the Innocents. + +2:1. When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of +king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, + +2:2. Saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have +seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him. + +2:3. And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with +him. + +2:4. And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of +the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born. + +2:5. But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written +by the prophet: + +2:6. And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among the +princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the captain that +shall rule my people Israel. + +2:7. Then Herod, privately calling the wise men learned diligently of +them the time of the star which appeared to them; + +2:8. And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire +after the child, and when you have found him, bring me word again, that +I also may come and adore him. + +2:9. Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star +which they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and +stood over where the child was. + +2:10. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. + +2:11. And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his +mother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, +they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. + +2:12. And having received an answer in sleep that they should not +return to Herod, they went back another way into their country. + +2:13. And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord +appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his +mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For +it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him. + +2:14. Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and +retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod: + +2:15. That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, +saying: Out of Egypt have I called my son. + +2:16. Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was +exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in +Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and +under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the +wise men. + +2:17. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, +saying: + +2:18. A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel +bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are +not. + +2:19. But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in +sleep to Joseph in Egypt, + +2:20. Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the +land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child. + +2:21. Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the +land of Israel. + +2:22. But hearing that Archclaus reigned in Judea in the room of Herod +his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep +retired into the quarters of Galilee. + +2:23. And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be +fulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a +Nazarene. + + + +Matthew Chapter 3 + + +The preaching of John: Christ is baptized. + +3:1. And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert +of Judea. + +3:2. And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. + +Do penance. . .Paenitentiam agite. Which word, according to the use of +the scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance +and amendment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and +such like penitential exercises. + +3:3. For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A +voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make +straight his paths. + +3:4. And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern +girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey. + +3:5. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country +about Jordan: + +3:6. And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. + +3:7. And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his +baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to +flee from the wrath to come? + +Pharisees and Sadducees. . .These were two sects among the Jews: of +which the former were for the most part notorious hypocrites; the +latter, a kind of freethinkers in matters of religion. + +3:8. Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. + +3:9. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our +father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up +children to Abraham. + +3:10. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree +therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast +into the fire. + +3:11. I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall +come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: +he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire. + +3:12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his +floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn +with unquenchable fire. + +3:13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be +baptized by him. + +3:14. But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and +comest thou to me? + +3:15. And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so +it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him. + +3:16. And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and +lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God +descending as a dove, and coming upon him. + +3:17. And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in +whom I am well pleased. + + + +Matthew Chapter 4 + + +Christ's fast of forty days: He is tempted. He begins to preach, to +call disciples to him, and to work miracles. + +4:1. Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by +the devil. + +4:2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he +was hungry. + +4:3. And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, +command that these stones be made bread. + +4:4. Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man +live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. + +4:5. Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon +the pinnacle of the temple, + +4:6. And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for +it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in +their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot +against a stone. + +4:7. Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the +Lord thy God. + +4:8. Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed +him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, + +Shewed him, etc. . .That is, pointed out to him where each kingdom lay; +and set forth in words what was most glorious and admirable in each of +them. Or also set before his eyes, as it were in a large map, a lively +representation of all those kingdoms. + +4:9. And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou +wilt adore me. + +4:10. Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The +Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve. + +4:11. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to +him. + +4:12. And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired +into Galilee: + +4:13. And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on +the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim; + +4:14. That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet: + +4:15. Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond +the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: + +4:16. The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to +them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up. + +4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for +the kingdom of heaven is at hand. + +4:18. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon +who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea +(for they were fishers). + +4:19. And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be +fishers of men. + +4:20. And they immediately leaving their nets, followed him. + +4:21. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the +son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their +father, mending their nets: and he called them. + +4:22. And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him. + +4:23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, +and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of +sickness and every infirmity, among the people. + +4:24. And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him +all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and +such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the +palsy, and he cured them: + +4:25. And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, +and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. + + + +Matthew Chapter 5 + + +Christ's sermon upon the mount. The eight beatitudes. + +5:1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he +was set down, his disciples came unto him. + +5:2. And opening his mouth he taught them, saying: + +5:3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of +heaven. + +The poor in spirit. . .That is, the humble; and they whose spirit is not +set upon riches. + +5:4. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. + +5:5. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. + +5:6. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they +shall have their fill. + +5:7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. + +5:8. Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God. + +5:9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children +of God. + +5:10. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for +theirs is the kingdom of heaven. + +5:11. Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and +speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: + +5:12. Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For +so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. + +5:13. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, +wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be +cast out, and to be trodden on by men. + +5:14. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain +cannot be hid. + +5:15. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon +a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. + +5:16. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good +works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. + +5:17. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. +I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. + +To fulfil. . .By accomplishing all the figures and prophecies; and +perfecting all that was imperfect. + +5:18. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or +one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. + +Amen. . .That is, assuredly of a truth. . .This Hebrew word, amen, is +here retained by the example and authority of all the four Evangelists. +It is used by our Lord as a strong asseveration, and affirmation of the +truth. + +5:19. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of +heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the +kingdom of heaven. + +5:20. For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of +the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of +heaven. + +The scribes and Pharisees. . .The scribes were the doctors of the law of +Moses: the Pharisees were a precise set of men, making profession of a +more exact observance of the law: and upon that account greatly +esteemed among the people. + +5:21. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not +kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment. + +Shall be in danger of the judgment. . .That is, shall deserve to be +punished by that lesser tribunal among the Jews, called the Judgment, +which took cognizance of such crimes. + +5:22. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall +be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, +Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou +fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. + +Raca. . .A word expressing great indignation or contempt. Shall be in +danger of the council. . .That is, shall deserve to be punished by the +highest court of judicature, called the Council, or Sanhedrim, +consisting of seventy-two persons, where the highest causes were tried +and judged, which was at Jerusalem. Thou fool. . .This was then looked +upon as a heinous injury, when uttered with contempt, spite, or malice: +and therefore is here so severely condemned. Shall be in danger of hell +fire. . .literally, according to the Greek, shall deserve to be cast +into the Gehenna of fire. Which words our Saviour made use of to +express the fire and punishments of hell. + +5:23. If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou +remember that thy brother hath anything against thee; + +5:24. Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be +reconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift. + +5:25. Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in +the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, +and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into +prison. + +5:26. Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou +repay the last farthing. + +5:27. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not +commit adultery. + +5:28. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust +after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. + +5:29. And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it +from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should +perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell. + +Scandalize thee. . .That is, if it be a stumblingblock, or occasion of +sin to thee. By which we are taught to fly the immediate occasions of +sin, though they be as dear to us, or as necessary as a hand or an eye. + +5:30. And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it +from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should +perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell. + +5:31. And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him +give her a bill of divorce. + +5:32. But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, +excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and +he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. + +5:33. Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt +not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. + +5:34. But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is +the throne of God: + +Not to swear at all. . .It is not forbid to swear in truth, justice and +judgment; to the honour of God, or our own or neighbour's just defence: +but only to swear rashly, or profanely, in common discourse, and +without necessity. + +5:35. Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for +it is the city of the great king: + +5:36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make +one hair white or black. + +5:37. But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over +and above these, is of evil. + +5:38. You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a +tooth for a tooth. + +5:39. But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on +thy right cheek, turn to him also the other: + +Not to resist evil, etc. . .What is here commanded, is a Christian +patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer +still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is +further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for +neither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and +Acts 23. + +5:40. And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away +thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him. + +5:41. And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two. + +5:42. Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow +of thee turn not away. + +5:43. You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy +neighbour, and hate thy enemy. + +5:44. But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate +you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: + +5:45. That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who +maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the +just and the unjust. + +5:46. For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? +do not even the publicans this? + +The publicans. . .These were the gatherers of the public taxes: a set of +men, odious and infamous among the Jews, for their extortions and +injustice. + +5:47. And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not +also the heathens this? + +5:48. Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is +perfect. + + + +Matthew Chapter 6 + + +A continuation of the sermon on the mount. + +6:1. Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by +them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in +heaven. + +Your justice. . .that is, works of justice; viz., fasting, prayer, and +almsdeeds; which ought to be performed not out of ostentation, or a +view to please men, but solely to please God. + +6:2. Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before +thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that +they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received +their reward. + +6:3. But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right +hand doth. + +6:4. That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret +will repay thee. + +6:5. And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to +stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they +may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. + +6:6. But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having +shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth +in secret will repay thee. + +6:7. And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For +they think that in their much speaking they may be heard. + +6:8. Be not you therefore like to them for your Father knoweth what is +needful for you, before you ask him. + +6:9. Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, +hallowed be thy name. + +6:10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. + +6:11. Give us this day our supersubstantial bread. + +Supersubstantial bread. . .In St. Luke the same word is rendered daily +bread. It is understood of the bread of life, which we receive in the +Blessed Sacrament. + +6:12. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. + +6:13. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. + +Lead us not into temptation. . .That is, suffer us not to be overcome by +temptation. + +6:14. For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father +will forgive you also your offences. + +6:15. But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive +you your offences. + +6:16. And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they +disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I +say to you, they have received their reward. + +6:17. But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face; + +6:18. That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in +secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee. + +6:19. Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and +moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. + +6:20. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the +rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor +steal. + +6:21. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. + +6:22. The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole +body shall be lightsome. + +6:23. But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then +the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great +shall it be! + +6:24. No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, +and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. +You cannot serve God and mammon. + +Mammon. . .That is, riches, worldly interest. + +6:25. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you +shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life +more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? + +6:26. Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they +reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are +not you of much more value than they? + +6:27. And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one +cubit? + +6:28. And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of +the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. + +6:29. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was +arrayed as one of these. + +6:30. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is +cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of +little faith? + +6:31. Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what +shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? + +6:32. For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father +knoweth that you have need of all these things. + +6:33. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and +all these things shall be added unto you. + +6:34. Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be +solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. + + + +Matthew Chapter 7 + + +The third part of the sermon on the mount. + +7:1. Judge not, that you may not be judged. + +7:2. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with +what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. + +7:3. And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and +seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? + +7:4. Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy +eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? + +7:5. Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and +then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. + +7:6. Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls +before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and +turning upon you, they tear you. + +7:7. Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, +and it shall be opened to you. + +7:8. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, +findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. + +7:9. Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask +bread, will he reach him a stone? + +7:10. Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent? + +7:11. If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your +children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good +things to them that ask him? + +7:12. All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to +you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets. + +7:13. Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad +is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in +thereat. + +7:14. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to +life: and few there are that find it! + +7:15. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of +sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. + +7:16. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of +thorns, or figs of thistles? + +7:17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil +tree bringeth forth evil fruit. + +7:18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil +tree bring forth good fruit. + +7:19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, +and shall be cast into the fire. + +7:20. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. + +7:21. Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the +kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in +heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. + +7:22. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we +prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many +miracles in thy name? + +7:23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from +me, you that work iniquity. + +7:24. Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, +shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, + +7:25. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and +they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a +rock. + +7:26. And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, +shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, + +7:27. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and +they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof. + +7:28. And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the +people were in admiration at his doctrine. + +7:29. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the +scribes and Pharisees. + + + +Matthew Chapter 8 + + +Christ cleanses the leper, heals the centurion's servant, Peter's +mother-in-law, and many others: he stills the storm at sea, drives the +devils out of two men possessed, and suffers them to go into the swine. + +8:1. And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes +followed him: + +8:2. And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou +wilt, thou canst make me clean. + +8:3. And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, +be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. + +8:4. And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself +to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a +testimony unto them. + +8:5. And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a +centurion, beseeching him, + +8:6. And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and +is grievously tormented. + +8:7. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. + +8:8. And the centurion, making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that +thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my +servant shall be healed. + +8:9. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me +soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and +he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. + +8:10. And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed +him. Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. + +8:11. And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, +and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of +heaven: + +8:12. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the +exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +8:13. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, +so be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour. + +8:14. And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's +mother lying, and sick of a fever; + +8:15. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose +and ministered to them. + +8:16. And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were +possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and +all that were sick he healed: + +8:17. That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet +Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases. + +8:18. And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass +over the water. + +8:19. And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow +thee whithersoever thou shalt go. + +8:20. And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of +the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. + +8:21. And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first +to go and bury my father. + +8:22. But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their +dead. + +8:23. And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him: + +8:24. And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was +covered with waves, but he was asleep. + +8:25. And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we +perish. + +8:26. And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little +faith? Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there +came a great calm. + +8:27. But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the +winds and the sea obey him? + +8:28. And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the +country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with +devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none +could pass by that way. + +8:29. And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, +Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? + +8:30. And there was, not far from them, a herd of many swine feeding. + +8:31. And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, +send us into the herd of swine. + +8:32. And he said to them: Go. But they going out went into the swine, +and behold the whole herd ran violently down a steep place into the +sea: and they perished in the waters. + +8:33. And they that kept them fled: and coming into the city, told +every thing, and concerning them that had been possessed by the devils. + +8:34. And behold the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and when they +saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their coast. + + + +Matthew Chapter 9 + + +Christ heals one sick of palsy: calls Matthew: cures the issue of +blood: raises to life the daughter of Jairus: gives sight to two blind +men: and heals a dumb man possessed by the devil. + +9:1. And entering into a boat, he passed over the water and came into +his own city. + +9:2. And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a +bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: +Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. + +9:3. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He +blasphemeth. + +9:4. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in +your hearts? + +9:5. Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, +Arise, and walk? + +9:6. But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to +forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take +up thy bed, and go into thy house. + +9:7. And he arose, and went into his house. + +9:8. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave +such power to men. + +9:9. And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the +custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he +arose up and followed him. + +9:10. And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, +behold many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his +disciples. + +9:11. And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your +master eat with publicans and sinners? + +9:12. But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a +physician, but they that are ill. + +9:13. Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not +sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners. + +9:14. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the +Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast? + +9:15. And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, +as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when +the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast. + +Can the children of the bridegroom. . .This, by a Hebraism, signifies +the friends or companions of the bridegroom. + +9:16. And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For +it taketh away the fulness thereof from the garment, and there is made +a greater rent. + +9:17. Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the +bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But +new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved. + +9:18. As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler +came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; +but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. + +9:19. And Jesus rising up followed him, with his disciples. + +9:20. And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve +years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. + +9:21. For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I +shall be healed. + +9:22. But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart, +daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole +from that hour. + +9:23. And when Jesus was come into the house of the ruler, and saw the +minstrels and the multitude making a rout, + +9:24. He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth. And +they laughed him to scorn. + +9:25. And when the multitude was put forth, he went in, and took her by +the hand. And the maid arose. + +9:26. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that country. + +9:27. And as Jesus passed from thence, there followed him two blind men +crying out and saying, Have mercy on us, O Son of David. + +9:28. And when he was come to the house, the blind men came to him. And +Jesus saith to them, Do you believe, that I can do this unto you? They +say to him, Yea, Lord. + +9:29. Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be +it done unto you. + +9:30. And their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them, +saying, See that no man know this. + +9:31. But they going out, spread his fame abroad in all that country. + +9:32. And when they were gone out, behold they brought him a dumb man, +possessed with a devil. + +9:33. And after the devil was cast out, the dumb man spoke, and the +multitudes wondered, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel. + +9:34. But the Pharisees said, By the prince of devils he casteth out +devils. + +9:35. And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their +synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every +disease, and every infirmity. + +9:36. And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because +they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. + +9:37. Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but +the labourers are few. + +9:38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth +labourers into his harvest. + + + +Matthew Chapter 10 + + +Christ sends out his twelve apostles, with the power of miracles. The +lessons he gives them. + +10:1. And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them +power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of +diseases, and all manner of infirmities. + +10:2. And the names of the twelve Apostles are these: The first, Simon +who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, + +10:3. James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and +Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of +Alpheus, and Thaddeus, + +10:4. Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. + +10:5. These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into +the way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye +not. + +10:6. But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. + +10:7. And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand. + +10:8. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out +devils: freely have you received, freely give. + +10:9. Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses: + +10:10. Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a +staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat. + +10:11. And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in +it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence. + +10:12. And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to +this house. + +10:13. And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but +if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you. + +10:14. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going +forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet. + +10:15. Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of +Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. + +10:16. Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye +therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. + +Simple. . .That is, harmless, plain, sincere, and without guile. + +10:17. But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and +they will scourge you in their synagogues. + +10:18. And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for +my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles: + +10:19. But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what +to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak: + +10:20. For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that +speaketh in you. + +10:21. The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the +father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, +and shall put them to death. + +10:22. And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he +that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved. + +10:23. And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into +another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of +Israel, till the Son of man come. + +10:24. The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his +lord. + +10:25. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the +servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house +Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? + +10:26. Therefore fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not +be revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known. + +10:27. That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and +that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops. + +10:28. And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to +kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body +in hell. + +10:29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them +shall fall on the ground without your Father. + +10:30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. + +10:31. Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows. + +10:32. Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will +also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. + +10:33. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him +before my Father who is in heaven. + +10:34. Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to +send peace, but the sword. + +10:35. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the +daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother +in law. + +I came to set a man at variance, etc. . .Not that this was the end or +design of the coming of our Saviour; but that his coming and his +doctrine would have this effect, by reason of the obstinate resistance +that many would make, and of their persecuting all such as should +adhere to him. + +10:36. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. + +10:37. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of +me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of +me. + +10:38. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not +worthy of me. + +10:39. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose +his life for me, shall find it. + +10:40. He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, +receiveth him that sent me. + +10:41. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall +receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in +the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. + +10:42. And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a +cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he +shall not lose his reward. + + + +Matthew Chapter 11 + + +John sends his disciples to Christ, who upbraids the Jews for their +incredulity, and calls to him such as are sensible of their burdens. + +11:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his +twelve disciples, he passed from thence, to teach and to preach in +their cities. + +11:2. Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending +two of his disciples he said to him: + +11:3. Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another? + +11:4. And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate to John what +you have heard and seen. + +11:5. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf +hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them. + +11:6. And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me. + +Scandalized in me. . .That is, who shall not take occasion of scandal or +offence from my humility, and the disgraceful death of the cross which +I shall endure. + +11:7. And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the +multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a +reed shaken with the wind? + +11:8. But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? +Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of +kings. + +11:9. But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more +than a prophet. + +11:10. For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel +before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. + +11:11. Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born +of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in +the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. + +11:12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of +heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away. + +Suffereth violence, etc. . .It is not to be obtained but by main force, +by using violence upon ourselves, by mortification and penance, and +resisting our perverse inclinations. + +11:13. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John: + +11:14. And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come. + +He is Elias, etc. . .Not in person, but in spirit. St. Luke 1. 17. + +11:15. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +11:16. But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is +like to children sitting in the market place. + +11:17. Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and +you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned. + +11:18. For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath +a devil. + +11:19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a +man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and +sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children. + +11:20. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most +of his miracles, for that they had not done penance. + +11:21. Woe thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and +Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they +had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes. + +11:22. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and +Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you. + +11:23. And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou +shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the +miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto +this day. + +11:24. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land +of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee. + +11:25. At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O +Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things +from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. + +11:26. Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight. + +11:27. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth +the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the +Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him. + +11:28. Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will +refresh you. + +11:29. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, +and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. + +11:30. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light. + + + +Matthew Chapter 12 + + +Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees, and confutes their +attributing his miracles to Satan. + +12:1. At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his +disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat. + +12:2. And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples +do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days. + +12:3. But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was +hungry, and they that were with him: + +12:4. How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of +proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that +were with him, but for the priests only? + +The loaves of proposition. . .So were called the twelve loaves which +were placed before the sanctuary in the temple of God. + +12:5. Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the +priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame? + +12:6. But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple. + +12:7. And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not +sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent. + +12:8. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath. + +12:9. And when he had passed from thence, he came into their +synagogues. + +12:10. And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they +asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they +might accuse him. + +12:11. But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that +hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, +will he not take hold on it and lift it up? + +12:12. How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to +do a good deed on the sabbath days. + +12:13. Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he +stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other. + +12:14. And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how +they might destroy him. + +12:15. But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed +him, and he healed them all. + +12:16. And he charged them that they should not make him known. + +12:17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the +prophet, saying: + +12:18. Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul +hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall +shew judgment to the Gentiles. + +12:19. He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear +his voice in the streets. + +12:20. The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall +not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory. + +12:21. And in his name the Gentiles shall hope. + +12:22. Then was offered to him one possessed with a devil, blind and +dumb: and he healed him, so that he spoke and saw. + +12:23. And all the multitudes were amazed, and said: Is not this the +son of David? + +12:24. But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out +devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. + +12:25. And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom +divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house +divided against itself shall not stand. + +12:26. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how +then shall his kingdom stand? + +12:27. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children +cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. + +12:28. But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the +kingdom of God come upon you. + +12:29. Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong, and rifle +his goods, unless he first bind the strong? and then he will rifle his +house. + +12:30. He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not +with me, scattereth. + +12:31. Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be +forgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven. + +The blasphemy of the Spirit. . .The sin here spoken of is that +blasphemy, by which the Pharisees attributed the miracles of Christ, +wrought by the Spirit of God, to Beelzebub the prince of devils. Now +this kind of sin is usually accompanied with so much obstinacy, and +such wilful opposing the Spirit of God, and the known truth, that men +who are guilty of it, are seldom or never converted: and therefore are +never forgiven, because they will not repent. Otherwise there is no +sin, which God cannot or will not forgive to such as sincerely repent, +and have recourse to the keys of the church. + +12:32. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it +shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, +it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to +come. + +Nor in the world to come. . .From these words St. Augustine (De Civ. +Dei, lib. 21, c. 13) and St. Gregory (Dialog., 4, c. 39) gather, that +some sins may be remitted in the world to come; and, consequently, that +there is a purgatory or a middle place. + +12:33. Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree +evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known. + +12:34. O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas +you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. + +12:35. A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: +and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. + +12:36. But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, +they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. + +Every idle word. . .This shews there must be a place of temporal +punishment hereafter where these slighter faults shall be punished. + +12:37. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou +shalt be condemned. + +12:38. Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: +Master, we would see a sign from thee. + +A sign. . .That is, a miracle from heaven. St. Luke 11. 16. + +12:39. Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation +seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas +the prophet. + +12:40. For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three +nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days +and three nights. + +Three days, etc. . .Not complete days and nights; but part of three +days, and three nights taken according to the way that the Hebrews +counted their days and nights, viz., from evening to evening. + +12:41. The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, +and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of +Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here. + +12:42. The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this +generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the +earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon +here. + +12:43. And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh +through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. + +12:44. Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came +out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. + +12:45. Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more +wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last +state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to +this wicked generation. + +12:46. As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and +his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. + +12:47. And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand +without, seeking thee. + +12:48. But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and +who are my brethren? + +Who is my mother?. . .This was not spoken by way of slighting his +mother, but to shew that we are never to suffer ourselves to be taken +from the service of God, by any inordinate affection to our earthly +parents: and that which our Lord chiefly regarded in his mother, was +her doing the will of his Father in heaven. It may also further allude +to the reprobation of the Jews, his carnal kindred, and the election of +the Gentiles. + +12:49. And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: +Behold my mother and my brethren. + +12:50. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, +he is my brother, and sister, and mother. + + + +Matthew Chapter 13 + + +The parables of the sower and the cockle: of the mustardseed, etc. + +13:1. The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side. + +13:2. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he +went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore. + +13:3. And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the +sower went forth to sow. + +13:4. And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of +the air came and ate them up. + +13:5. And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much +earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of +earth. + +13:6. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had +not root, they withered away. + +13:7. And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked +them. + +13:8. And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit, +some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, and some thirty fold. + +13:9. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +13:10. And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to +them in parables? + +13:11. Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to +know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not +given. + +13:12. For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound: +but he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he +hath. + +13:13. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they +see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. + +13:14. And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By +hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall +see, and shall not perceive. + +13:15. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears +they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at +any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and +understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. + +13:16. But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, +because they hear. + +13:17. For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired +to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the +things that you hear and have not heard them. + +13:18. Hear you therefore the parable of the sower. + +13:19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth +it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was +sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side. + +13:20. And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that +heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy. + +13:21. Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and +when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he +is presently scandalized. + +13:22. And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth +the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches +choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless. + +13:23. But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that +heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth +the one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty. + +13:24. Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of +heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. + +13:25. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle +among the wheat and went his way. + +13:26. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, +then appeared also the cockle. + +13:27. And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to +him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath +it cockle? + +13:28. And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants +said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? + +13:29. And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root +up the wheat also together with it. + +13:30. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the +harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind +it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. + +13:31. Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of +heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed +in his field. + +13:32. Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, +it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of +the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof. + +13:33. Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like +to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until +the whole was leavened. + +13:34. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and +without parables he did not speak to them. + +13:35. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, +saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden +from the foundation of the world. + +13:36. Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, +and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the +cockle of the field. + +13:37. Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed +is the Son of man. + +13:38. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children +of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one. + +13:39. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is +the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. + +13:40. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so +shall it be at the end of the world. + +13:41. The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out +of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. + +13:42. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be +weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +13:43. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their +Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +13:44. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. +Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and +selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. + +13:45. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good +pearls. + +13:46. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, +and sold all that he had, and bought it. + +13:47. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, +and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. + +13:48. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the +shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast +forth. + +13:49. So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, +and shall separate the wicked from among the just. + +13:50. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be +weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +13:51. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. + +13:52. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the +kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth +forth out of his treasure new things and old. + +13:53. And it came to pass: when Jesus had finished these parables, he +passed from thence. + +13:54. And coming into his own country, he taught them in their +synagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this +wisdom and miracles? + +13:55. Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, +and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude: + +His brethren. . .These were the children of Mary the wife of Cleophas, +sister to our Blessed Lady, (St. Matt. 27. 56; St. John 19. 25,) and +therefore, according to the usual style of the Scripture, they were +called brethren, that is, near relations to our Saviour. + +13:56. And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath +he all these things? + +13:57. And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them: +A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his +own house. + +13:58. And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their +unbelief. + + + +Matthew Chapter 14 + + +Herod puts John to death. Christ feeds five thousand in the desert. He +walks upon the sea, and heals all the diseased with the touch of his +garment. + +14:1. At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard the fame of Jesus. + +Tetrarch. . .This word, derived from the Greek, signifies one that rules +over the fourth part of a kingdom: as Herod then ruled over Galilee, +which was but the fourth part of the kingdom of his father. + +14:2. And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is +risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves +in him. + +14:3. For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into +prison, because of Herodias, his brother's wife. + +14:4. For John said to him: It is not lawful for thee to have her. + +14:5. And having a mind to put him to death, he feared the people: +because they esteemed him as a prophet. + +14:6. But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before +them: and pleased Herod. + +14:7. Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she +would ask of him. + +14:8. But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here +in a dish the head of John the Baptist. + +14:9. And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for +them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given. + +14:10. And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. + +14:11. And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the +damsel, and she brought it to her mother. + +14:12. And his disciples came and took the body, and buried it, and +came and told Jesus. + +14:13. Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by a boat, +into a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, +followed him on foot out of the cities. + +14:14. And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on +them, and healed their sick. + +14:15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This +is a desert place, and the hour is now passed: send away the +multitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves +victuals. + +14:16. But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them +to eat. + +14:17. They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two +fishes. + +14:18. Who said to them: Bring them hither to me. + +14:19. And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the +grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to +heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, +and the disciples to the multitudes. + +14:20. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what +remained, twelve full baskets of fragments. + +14:21. And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, +besides women and children. + +14:22. And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the +boat, and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the +people. + +14:23. And having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain +alone to pray. And when it was evening, he was there alone. + +14:24. But the boat in the midst of the sea was tossed with the waves: +for the wind was contrary. + +14:25. And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking +upon the sea. + +14:26. And they seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying: +It is an apparition. And they cried out for fear. + +14:27. And immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying: Be of good heart: +it is I, fear ye not. + +14:28. And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it be thou, bid me come +to thee upon the waters. + +14:29. And he said: Come. And Peter going down out of the boat walked +upon the water to come to Jesus. + +14:30. But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to +sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me. + +14:31. And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of +him, and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? + +14:32. And when they were come up into the boat, the wind ceased. + +14:33. And they that were in the boat came and adored him, saying: +Indeed thou art the Son of God. + +14:34. And having passed the water, they came into the country of +Genesar. + +14:35. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent +into all that country, and brought to him all that were diseased. + +14:36. And they besought him that they might touch but the hem of his +garment. And as many as touched, were made whole. + + + +Matthew Chapter 15 + + +Christ reproves the Scribes. He cures the daughter of the woman of +Canaan: and many others: and feeds four thousand with seven loaves. + +15:1. Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: + +15:2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? +For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. + +15:3. But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the +commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: + +15:4. Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or +mother, let him die the death. + +15:5. But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift +whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee. + +The gift, etc. . .That is, the offering that I shall make to God, shall +be instead of that which should be expended for thy profit. This +tradition of the Pharisees was calculated to enrich themselves; by +exempting children from giving any further assistance to their parents, +if they once offered to the temple and the priests, that which should +have been the support of their parents. But this was a violation of the +law of God, and of nature, which our Saviour here condemns. + +15:6. And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have +made void the commandment of God for your tradition. + +15:7. Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: + +15:8. This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far +from me. + +15:9. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and +commandments of men. + +Commandments of men. . .The doctrines and commandments here reprehended +are such as are either contrary to the law of God, (as that of +neglecting parents, under pretence of giving to God,) or at least are +frivolous, unprofitable, and no ways conducing to true piety, as that +of often washing hands, etc., without regard to the purity of the +heart. But as to the rules and ordinances of the holy church, touching +fasts, festivals, etc., these are no ways repugnant to, but highly +agreeable to God's holy word, and all Christian piety: neither are they +to be counted among the doctrines and commandments of men; because they +proceed not from mere human authority; but from that which Christ has +established in his church; whose pastors he has commanded us to hear +and obey, even as himself. St. Luke 10. 16; St. Matt. 18. 17. + +15:10. And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to +them: Hear ye and understand. + +15:11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what +cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. + +Not that which goeth into, etc. . .No uncleanness in meat, nor any dirt +contracted by eating it with unwashed hands, can defile the soul: but +sin alone; or a disobedience of the heart to the ordinance and will of +God. And thus when Adam took the forbidden fruit, it was not the apple, +which entered into the mouth, but the disobedience to the law of God +which defiled him. The same is to be said if a Jew, in the time of the +old law, had eaten swine's flesh; or a Christian convert, in the days +of the apostles, contrary to their ordinance, had eaten blood; or if +any of the faithful at present should transgress the ordinance of God's +church, by breaking the fasts: for in all these cases the soul would be +defiled; not indeed by that which goeth into the mouth; but by the +disobedience of the heart, in wilfully transgressing the ordinance of +God, or of those who have their authority from him. + +15:12. Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that +the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized? + +15:13. But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father +hath not planted, shall be rooted up. + +15:14. Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if +the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit. + +15:15. And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable. + +15:16. But he said: Are you also yet without understanding? + +15:17. Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, +goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy? + +15:18. But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from +the heart, and those things defile a man. + +15:19. For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, +adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. + +15:20. These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed +hands doth not defile a man. + +15:21. And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre +and Sidon. + +15:22. And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, +crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: +my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil. + +15:23. Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought +him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: + +15:24. And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that +are lost of the house of Israel. + +15:25. But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me. + +15:26. Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the +children, and to cast it to the dogs. + +15:27. But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs +that fall from the table of their masters. + +15:28. Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: +be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that +hour. + +15:29. And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea +of Galilee: and going up into a mountain, he sat there. + +15:30. And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the +dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast +them down at his feet, and he healed them: + +15:31. So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame +walk, the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel. + +15:32. And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have +compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three +days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, +lest they faint in the way. + +15:33. And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so +many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude? + +15:34. And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: +Seven, and a few little fishes. + +15:35. And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground. + +15:36. And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, +he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the +people. + +15:37. And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven +baskets full, of what remained of the fragments. + +15:38. And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children +and women. + +15:39. And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and +came into the coasts of Magedan. + + + +Matthew Chapter 16 + + +Christ refuses to shew the Pharisees a sign from heaven. Peter's +confession is rewarded. He is rebuked for opposing Christ's passion. +All his followers must deny themselves. + +16:1. And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and +they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. + +16:2. But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It +will be fair weather, for the sky is red. + +16:3. And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is +red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and +can you not know the signs of the times? + +16:4. A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a +sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he +left them, and went away. + +16:5. And when his disciples were come over the water, they had +forgotten to take bread. + +16:6. Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the +Pharisees and Sadducees. + +16:7. But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken +no bread. + +16:8. And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O +ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? + +16:9. Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five +loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? + +16:10. Nor the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many +baskets you took up? + +16:11. Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I +said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? + +16:12. Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of +the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and +Sadducees. + +16:13. And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he +asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? + +16:14. But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and +others Jeremias, or one of the prophets. + +16:15. Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? + +16:16. Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the +living God. + +16:17. And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon +Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my +Father who is in heaven. + +16:18. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I +will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against +it. + +Thou art Peter, etc. . .As St. Peter, by divine revelation, here made a +solemn profession of his faith of the divinity of Christ; so in +recompense of this faith and profession, our Lord here declares to him +the dignity to which he is pleased to raise him: viz., that he to whom +he had already given the name of Peter, signifying a rock, St. John 1. +42, should be a rock indeed, of invincible strength, for the support of +the building of the church; in which building he should be, next to +Christ himself, the chief foundation stone, in quality of chief pastor, +ruler, and governor; and should have accordingly all fulness of +ecclesiastical power, signified by the keys of the kingdom of heaven. +Upon this rock, etc. . .The words of Christ to Peter, spoken in the +vulgar language of the Jews which our Lord made use of, were the same +as if he had said in English, Thou art a Rock, and upon this rock I +will build my church. So that, by the plain course of the words, Peter +is here declared to be the rock, upon which the church was to be built: +Christ himself being both the principal foundation and founder of the +same. Where also note, that Christ, by building his house, that is, his +church, upon a rock, has thereby secured it against all storms and +floods, like the wise builder, St. Matt. 7. 24, 25. The gates of hell, +etc. . .That is, the powers of darkness, and whatever Satan can do, +either by himself, or his agents. For as the church is here likened to +a house, or fortress, built on a rock; so the adverse powers are +likened to a contrary house or fortress, the gates of which, that is, +the whole strength, and all the efforts it can make, will never be able +to prevail over the city or church of Christ. By this promise we are +fully assured, that neither idolatry, heresy, nor any pernicious error +whatsoever shall at any time prevail over the church of Christ. + +16:19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And +whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in +heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed +also in heaven. + +Loose on earth. . .The loosing the bands of temporal punishments due to +sins, is called an indulgence; the power of which is here granted. + +16:20. Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one +that he was Jesus the Christ. + +16:21. From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he +must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and +scribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise +again. + +16:22. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it +far from thee, this shall not be unto thee. + +And Peter taking him. . .That is, taking him aside, out of a tender +love, respect and zeal for his Lord and Master's honour, began to +expostulate with him, as it were to rebuke him, saying, Lord, far be it +from thee to suffer death; but the Lord said to Peter, ver. 23, Go +behind me, Satan. These words may signify, Begone from me; but the holy +Fathers expound them otherwise, that is, come after me, or follow me; +and by these words the Lord would have Peter to follow him in his +suffering, and not to oppose the divine will by contradiction; for the +word satan means in Hebrew an adversary, or one that opposes. + +16:23. Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a +scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, +but the things that are of men. + +16:24. Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, +let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. + +16:25. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall +lose his life for my sake, shall find it. + +16:26. For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and +suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for +his soul? + +16:27. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with +his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his +works. + +16:28. Amen I say to you, there are some of them that stand here, that +shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his +kingdom. + + + +Matthew Chapter 17 + + +The Transfiguration of Christ: He cures the lunatic child: foretells +his passion; and pays the didrachma. + +17:1. And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and +John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: + +17:2. And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as +the sun: and his garments became white as snow. + +17:3. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with +him. + +17:4. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be +here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, +and one for Moses, and one for Elias. + +17:5. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed +them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, +in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. + +17:6. And the disciples hearing fell upon their face, and were very +much afraid. + +17:7. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them: Arise, and +fear not. + +17:8. And they lifting up their eyes, saw no one, but only Jesus. + +17:9. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, +saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from +the dead. + +17:10. And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say +that Elias must come first? + +17:11. But he answering, said to them: Elias indeed shall come, and +restore all things. + +17:12. But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him +not, But have done unto him whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son +of man shall suffer from them. + +17:13. Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of +John the Baptist. + +17:14. And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man +falling down on his knees before him saying: Lord, have pity on my son, +for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the +fire, and often into the water. + +17:15. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. + +17:16. Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse +generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? +Bring him hither to me. + +17:17. And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the +child was cured from that hour. + +17:18. Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could +not we cast him out? + +17:19. Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to +you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to +this mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and +nothing shall be impossible to you. + +As a grain of mustard seed. . .That is, a perfect faith; which in its +properties, and its fruits, resembles the grain of mustard seed, in the +parable, chap. 13. 31. + +17:20. But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting. + +17:21. And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The +Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: + +17:22. And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. +And they were troubled exceedingly. + +17:23. And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the +didrachmas, came to Peter, and said to him: Doth not your master pay +the didrachma? + +The didrachmas. . .A didrachma was half a sicle, or half a stater; that +is, about 15d. English: which was a tax laid upon every head for the +service of the temple. + +17:24. He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus +prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the +earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom, of their own +children, or of strangers? + +17:25. And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children +are free. + +17:26. But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in +a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou +hast opened it's mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give +it to them for me and thee. + + + +Matthew Chapter 18 + + +Christ teaches humility, to beware of scandal, and to flee the +occasions of sin: to denounce to the church incorrigible sinners, and +to look upon such as refuse to hear the church as heathens. He promises +to his disciples the power of binding and loosing: and that he will be +in the midst of their assemblies. No forgiveness for them that will not +forgive. + +18:1. At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest +thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? + +18:2. And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst +of them. + +18:3. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become +as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. + +18:4. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he +is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. + +18:5. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, +receiveth me. + +18:6. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that +believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged +about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. + +Shall scandalize. . .That is, shall put a stumblingblock in their way, +and cause them to fall into sin. + +18:7. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that +scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal +cometh. + +It must needs be, etc. . .Viz., considering the wickedness and +corruption of the world. + +18:8. And if thy hand, or thy foot, scandalize thee, cut it off, and +cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or +lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting +fire. + +Scandalize thee. . .That is, cause thee to offend. + +18:9. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from +thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than +having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. + +18:10. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to +you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who +is in heaven. + +18:11. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. + +18:12. What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them +should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, +and goeth to seek that which is gone astray? + +18:13. And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth +more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. + +18:14. Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, +that one of these little ones should perish. + +18:15. But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him +between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy +brother. + +18:16. And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: +that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. + +18:17. And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will +not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican. + +18:18. Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall +be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, +shall be loosed also in heaven. + +18:19. Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, +concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them +by my Father who is in heaven. + +18:20. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, +there am I in the midst of them. + +There am I in the midst of them. . .This is understood of such +assemblies only as are gathered in the name and authority of Christ; +and in unity of the church of Christ. St. Cyprian, De Unitate +Ecclesiae. + +18:21. Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my +brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? + +18:22. Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but +till seventy times seven times. + +18:23. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would +take an account of his servants. + +18:24. And when he had begun to take the account, one as brought to +him, that owed him ten thousand talents. + +Talents. . .A talent was seven hundred and fifty ounces of silver, which +at the rate of five shillings to the ounce is a hundred and +eighty-seven pounds ten shillings sterling. + +18:25. And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that +he should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and +payment to be made. + +18:26. But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have +patience with me, and I will pay thee all. + +18:27. And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go +and forgave him the debt. + +18:28. But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his +fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, +he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest. + +Pence. . .The Roman penny was the eighth part of an ounce, that is, +about sevenpence half-penny English. + +18:29. And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have +patience with me, and I will pay thee all. + +18:30. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he +paid the debt. + +18:31. Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much +grieved, and they came, and told their lord all that was done. + +18:32. Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant, +I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me: + +18:33. Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow +servant, even as I had compassion on thee? + +18:34. And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until +he paid all the debt. + +18:35. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not +every one his brother from your hearts. + + + +Matthew Chapter 19 + + +Christ declares matrimony to be indissoluble: he recommends the making +one's self an eunuch for the kingdom of heaven; and parting with all +things for him. He shews the danger of riches, and the reward of +leaving all to follow him. + +19:1. And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these words, he departed +from Galilee and came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan. + +19:2. And great multitudes followed him: and he healed them there. + +19:3. And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it +lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? + +19:4. Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made +man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: + +19:5. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall +cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. + +19:6. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God +hath joined together, let no man put asunder. + +19:7. They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of +divorce, and to put away? + +19:8. He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your +heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it +was not so. + +19:9. And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except +it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: +and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. + +Except it be, etc. . .In the case of fornication, that is, of adultery, +the wife may be put away: but even then the husband cannot marry +another as long as the wife is living. + +19:10. His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife +be so, it is not expedient to marry. + +19:11. Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom +it is given. + +All men take not this word. . .That is, all receive not the gift of +living singly and chastely, unless they pray for the grace of God to +enable them to live so, and for some it may be necessary to that end to +fast as well as pray: and to those it is given from above. + +19:12. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: +and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, +who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can +take, let him take it. + +There are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs, for the kingdom of +heaven. . .This text is not to be taken in the literal sense; but means, +that there are such, who have taken a firm and commendable resolution +of leading a single and chaste life, in order to serve God in a more +perfect state than those who marry: as St. Paul clearly shews. 1 Cor. +7. 37, 38. + +19:13. Then were little children presented to him, that he should +impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them. + +19:14. But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid +them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such. + +19:15. And when he had imposed hands upon them, he departed from +thence. + +19:16. And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good +shall I do that I may have life everlasting? + +19:17. Who said to him: Why askest thou me concerning good? One is +good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. + +19:18. He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, +Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not +bear false witness. + +19:19. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy +neighbor as thyself. + +19:20. The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth, +what is yet wanting to me? + +19:21. Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou +hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and +come, follow me. + +19:22. And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: +for he had great possessions. + +19:23. Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a +rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. + +19:24. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through +the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of +heaven. + +19:25. And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered much, +saying: Who then can be saved? + +19:26. And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: +but with God all things are possible. + +19:27. Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all +things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have? + +19:28. And Jesus said to them: Amen I say to you, that you who have +followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the +seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the +twelve tribes of Israel. + +19:29. And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or +father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, +shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. + +19:30. And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be +first. + + + +Matthew Chapter 20 + + +The parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The ambition of the two +sons of Zebedee. Christ gives sight to two blind men. + +20:1. The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out +early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. + +20:2. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent +them into his vineyard. + +20:3. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the +marketplace idle. + +20:4. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will +give you what shall be just. + +20:5. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth +and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. + +20:6. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others +standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? + +20:7. They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: +Go ye also into my vineyard. + +20:8. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his +steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the +last even to the first. + +20:9. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, +they received every man a penny. + +20:10. But when the first also came, they thought that they should +receive more: And they also received every man a penny. + +20:11. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, + +20:12. Saying: These last have worked but one hour. and thou hast made +them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. + +20:13. But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no +wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? + +20:14. Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this +last even as to thee. + +20:15. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, +because I am good? + +What I will. . .Viz., with my own, and in matters that depend on my own +bounty. + +20:16. So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are +called but few chosen. + +20:17. And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart +and said to them: + +20:18. Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be +betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn +him to death. + +20:19. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged +and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again. + +20:20. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her +sons, adoring and asking something of him. + +20:21. Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that +these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on +thy left, in thy kingdom. + +20:22. And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you +drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. + +20:23. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit +on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for +whom it is prepared by my Father. + +20:24. And the ten, hearing it, were moved with indignation against the +two brethren. + +20:25. But Jesus called them to him and said: You know that the princes +of the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they that are the greater, +exercise power upon them. + +20:26. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among +you, let him be your minister. + +20:27. And he that will be first among you shall be your servant. + +20:28. Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to +minister and to give his life a redemption for many. + +20:29. And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed +him. + +20:30. And behold two blind men sitting by the way side heard that +Jesus passed by. And they cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, +have mercy on us. + +20:31. And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their +peace. But they cried out the more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, +have mercy on us. + +20:32. And Jesus stood and called them and said: What will ye that I do +to you? + +20:33. They say to him: Lord, that our eyes be opened. + +20:34. And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And +immediately they saw and followed him. + + + +Matthew Chapter 21 + + +Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and +sellers out of the temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the +priests and scribes. + +21:1. And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage, +unto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples, + +21:2. Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you: +and immediately you shall find an ass tied and a colt with her. Loose +them and bring them to me. + +21:3. And if any man shall say anything to you, say ye that the Lord +hath need of them. And forthwith he will let them go. + +21:4. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken +by the prophet, saying: + +21:5. Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, +meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of her that is used +to the yoke. + +21:6. And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them. + +21:7. And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments +upon them and made him sit thereon. + +21:8. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and +others cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way. + +21:9. And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, +saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the +name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. + +21:10. And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, +saying: Who is this? + +21:11. And the people said: This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of +Galilee. + +21:12. And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that +sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money +changers and the chairs of them that sold doves. + +21:13. And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called +the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves. + +21:14. And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple: and +he healed them. + +21:15. And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things +that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna +to the son of David, were moved with indignation, + +21:16. And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to +them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of +sucklings thou hast perfected praise? + +21:17. And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and +remained here. + +21:18. And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. + +21:19. And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and +found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit +grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree +withered away. + +21:20. And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it +presently withered away? + +21:21. And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you +shall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall +you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast +thyself into the sea, it shall be done. + +21:22. And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing, you +shall receive. + +21:23. And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he +was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By +what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this +authority? + +21:24. Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, +which if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do +these things. + +21:25. The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But +they thought within themselves, saying: + +21:26. If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did +you not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of +the multitude: for all held John as a prophet. + +21:27. And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to +them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. + +21:28. But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to +the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard. + +21:29. And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved +with repentance, he went. + +21:30. And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he +answering said: I go, Sir. And he went not. + +21:31. Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The +first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and +the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. + +21:32. For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not +believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, +seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him. + +21:33. Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who +planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a +press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a +strange country. + +21:34. And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants +to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. + +21:35. And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and +killed another and stoned another. + +21:36. Again he sent other servants, more than the former; and they did +to them in like manner. + +21:37. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will +reverence my son. + +21:38. But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This +is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance. + +21:39. And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard and +killed him. + +21:40. When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he +do to those husbandmen? + +21:41. They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and +let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the +fruit in due season. + +21:42. Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The +stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the +corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our +eyes. + +21:43. Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken +from you and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. + +21:44. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on +whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. + +21:45. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, +they knew that he spoke of them. + +21:46. And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes, +because they held him as a prophet. + + + +Matthew Chapter 22 + + +The parable of the marriage feast. Christ orders tribute to be paid to +Caesar. He confutes the Sadducees, shews which is the first commandment +in the law and puzzles the Pharisees. + +22:1. And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying: + +22:2. The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage +for his son. + +22:3. And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the +marriage: and they would not come. + +22:4. Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were +invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are +killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage. + +22:5. But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and +another to his merchandise. + +22:6. And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them +contumeliously, put them to death. + +22:7. But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his +armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city. + +22:8. Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but +they that were invited were not worthy. + +22:9. Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, +call to the marriage. + +22:10. And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together +all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled +with guests. + +22:11. And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man +who had not on a wedding garment. + +22:12. And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not +having on a wedding garment? But he was silent. + +22:13. Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and +cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and +gnashing of teeth. + +22:14. For many are called, but few are chosen. + +22:15. Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to +insnare him in his speech. + +22:16. And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: +Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of +God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard +the person of men. + +The Herodians. . .That is, some that belonged to Herod, and that joined +with him in standing up for the necessity of paying tribute to Caesar, +that is, to the Roman emperor. Some are of opinion that there was a +sect among the Jews called Herodians, from their maintaining that Herod +was the Messias. + +22:17. Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give +tribute to Caesar, or not? + +22:18. But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, +ye hypocrites? + +22:19. Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny. + +22:20. And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? + +22:21. They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render +therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the +things that are God's. + +22:22. And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their +ways. + +22:23. That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no +resurrection; and asked him, + +22:24. Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his +brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother. + +22:25. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having +married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his +brother. + +22:26. In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the +seventh. + +22:27. And last of all the woman died also. + +22:28. At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she +be? For they all had her. + +22:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the +Scriptures nor the power of God. + +22:30. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, +but shall be as the angels of God in heaven. + +22:31. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read +that which was spoken by God, saying to you: + +22:32. I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of +Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living. + +22:33. And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his +doctrine. + +22:34. But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, +came together. + +22:35. And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: + +22:36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? + +22:37. Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy +whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. + +22:38. This is the greatest and the first commandment. + +22:39. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as +thyself. + +22:40. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the +prophets. + +22:41. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, + +22:42. Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to +him: David's. + +22:43. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, +saying: + +22:44. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy +enemies thy footstool? + +22:45. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? + +22:46. And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man +from that day forth ask him any more questions. + + + +Matthew Chapter 23 + + +Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the bad +example of the scribes and Pharisees. He warns his disciples not to +imitate their ambition and denounces divers woes against them for their +hypocrisy and blindness. + +23:1. Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, + +23:2. Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of +Moses. + +23:3. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe +and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do +not. + +23:4. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on +men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move +them. + +23:5. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make +their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes. + +Phylacteries. . .that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten +commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes: +which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem +more zealous for the law. + +23:6. And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in +the synagogues, + +23:7. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, +Rabbi. + +23:8. But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you +are brethren. + +23:9. And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who +is in heaven. + +Call none your father--Neither be ye called masters, etc. . .The +meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be +regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who +would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we +are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and +spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 23:15,) and for our masters and teachers. + +23:10. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. + +23:11. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. + +23:12. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that +shall humble himself shall be exalted. + +23:13. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you +shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter +in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter. + +23:14. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour +the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive +the greater judgment. + +23:15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go +round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is +made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. + +23:16. Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the +temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the +temple is a debtor. + +23:17. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the +temple that sanctifieth the gold? + +23:18. And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but +whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor. + +23:19. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the +altar that sanctifieth the gift? + +23:20. He therefore that sweareth by the altar sweareth by it and by +all things that are upon it. + +23:21. And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by +him that dwelleth in it. + +23:22. And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and +by him that sitteth thereon. + +23:23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe +mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the +law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done +and not to leave those undone. + +23:24. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. + +23:25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make +clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full +of rapine and uncleanness. + +23:26. Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and +of the dish, that the outside may become clean. + +23:27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are +like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but +within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. + +23:28. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly +you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. + +23:29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the +sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, + +Build the sepulchres, etc. . .This is not blamed, as if it were in +itself evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the +hypocrisy of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to +honour the memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the +Lord of the prophets. + +23:30. And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not +have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. + +23:31. Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the +sons of them that killed the prophets. + +23:32. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. + +23:33. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the +judgment of hell? + +23:34. Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and +scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some +you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. + +23:35. That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed +upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of +Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and +the altar. + +That upon you may come, etc. . .Not that they should suffer more than +their own sins justly deserved; but that the justice of God should now +fall upon them with such a final vengeance, once for all, as might +comprise all the different kinds of judgments and punishments, that had +at any time before been inflicted for the shedding of just blood. + +23:36. Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this +generation. + +23:37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest +them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together +thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and +thou wouldst not? + +23:38. Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. + +23:39. For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. + + + +Matthew Chapter 24 + + +Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, with the signs that +shall come before it and before the last judgment. We must always +watch. + +24:1. And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his +disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple. + +24:2. And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen +I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that +shall not be destroyed. + +24:3. And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to +him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what +shall be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world? + +24:4. And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce +you. + +24:5. For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will +seduce many. + +24:6. And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be +not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not +yet. + +24:7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against +kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in +places. + +24:8. Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows. + +24:9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you +to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake. + +24:10. And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another +and shall hate one another. + +24:11. And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many. + +24:12. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall +grow cold. + +24:13. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved. + +24:14. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole +world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation +come. + +24:15. When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, +which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: +he that readeth let him understand. + +24:16. Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: + +24:17. And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take +any thing out of his house: + +24:18. And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his +coat. + +24:19. And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those +days. + +24:20. But pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the +sabbath. + +24:21. For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been +from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. + +24:22. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be +saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. + +24:23. Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: +do not believe him. + +24:24. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall +shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even +the elect. + +24:25. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. + +24:26. If therefore they shall say to you, Behold he is in the desert: +go ye not out. Behold he is in the closets: believe it not. + +24:27. For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into +the west: so shall also the cowling of the Son of man be. + +24:28. Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be +gathered together. + +Wheresoever, etc. . .The coming of Christ shall be sudden, and manifest +to all the world, like lightning: and wheresoever he shall come, +thither shall all mankind be gathered to him, as eagles are gathered +about a dead body. + +24:29. And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun +shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars +shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved. + +The stars. . .Or flaming meteors resembling stars. + +24:30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And +then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of +man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. + +The sign, etc. . .The cross of Christ. + +24:31. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice: +and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the +farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. + +24:32. And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof +is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh. + +24:33. So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that +it is nigh, even at the doors. + +24:34. Amen I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all +these things be done. + +24:35. Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass. + +Shall pass. . .Because they shall be changed at the end of the world +into a new heaven and new earth. + +24:36. But of that day and hour no one knoweth: no, not the angels of +heaven, but the Father alone. + +24:37. And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son +of man be. + +24:38. For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and +drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which +Noe entered into the ark: + +24:39. And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so +also shall the coming of the Son of man be. + +24:40. Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall +be left. + +24:41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and +one shall be left. + +24:42. Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord +will come. + +24:43. But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what +hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not +suffer his house to be broken open. + +24:44. Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not +the Son of man will come. + +24:45. Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his +lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season? + +24:46. Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall +find so doing. + +24:47. Amen I say to you: he shall place him over all his goods. + +24:48. But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long +a coming: + +24:49. And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and +drink with drunkards: + +24:50. The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not +and at an hour that he knoweth not: + +24:51. And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the +hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. + + + +Matthew Chapter 25 + + +The parable of the ten virgins and of the talents. The description of +the last judgment. + +25:1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who +taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. + +25:2. And five of them were foolish and five wise. + +25:3. But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil +with them. + +25:4. But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. + +25:5. And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept. + +25:6. And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom +cometh. Go ye forth to meet him. + +25:7. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. + +25:8. And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our +lamps are gone out. + +25:9. The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for +us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves. + +25:10. Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that +were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut. + +25:11. But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, +open to us. + +25:12. But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not. + +25:13. Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour. + +25:14. For even as a man going into a far country called his servants +and delivered to them his goods; + +25:15. And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to +another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and +immediately he took his journey. + +25:16. And he that had received the five talents went his way and +traded with the same and gained other five. + +25:17. And in like manner he that had received the two gained other +two. + +25:18. But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the +earth and hid his lord's money. + +25:19. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and +reckoned with them. + +25:20. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other +five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents. +Behold I have gained other five over and above. + +25:21. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, +because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee +over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. + +25:22. And he also that had received the two talents came and said: +Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other +two. + +25:23. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: +because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee +over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. + +25:24. But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I +know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown +and gatherest where thou hast not strewed. + +25:25. And being afraid, I went and hid thy talent in the earth. Behold +here thou hast that which is thine. + +25:26. And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful +servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I +have not strewed. + +25:27. Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the +bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury. + +25:28. Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it him that +hath ten talents. + +25:29. For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: +but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be +taken away. + +25:30. And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior +darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. + +25:31. And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the +angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. + +25:32. And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he +shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the +sheep from the goats: + +25:33. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on +his left. + +25:34. Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: +Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you +from the foundation of the world. + +25:35. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you +gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: + +25:36. Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in +prison, and you came to me. + +25:37. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see +thee hungry and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink? + +25:38. Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked +and covered thee? + +25:39. Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and came to thee? + +25:40. And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as +long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. + +25:41. Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: +Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared +for the devil and his angels. + +25:42. For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and +you gave me not to drink. + +25:43. I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered +me not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me. + +25:44. Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see +thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and +did not minister to thee? + +25:45. Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long +as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. + +25:46. And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, +into life everlasting. + + + +Matthew Chapter 26 + + +The Jews conspire against Christ. He is anointed by Mary. The treason +of Judas. The last supper. The prayer in the garden. The apprehension +of our Lord. His treatment in the house of Caiphas. + +26:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he +said to his disciples: + +26:2. You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of +man shall be delivered up to be crucified. + +26:3. Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the +people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: + +26:4. And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend +Jesus and put him to death. + +26:5. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should +be a tumult among the people. + +26:6. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, + +26:7. There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious +ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table. + +26:8. And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what +purpose is this waste? + +26:9. For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor. + +26:10. And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this +woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me. + +26:11. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not +always. + +Me you have not always. . .Viz., in a visible manner, as when conversant +here on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may daily assist and +relieve. + +26:12. For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my +burial. + +26:13. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in +the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a +memory of her. + +26:14. Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to +the chief priests. + +26:15. And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him +unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. + +26:16. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him. + +26:17. And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, +saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? + +Azymes. . .Feast of the unleavened bread. Pasch. . .The paschal lamb. + +26:18. But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man and say to +him: The master saith, My time is near at hand. With thee I make the +pasch with my disciples. + +26:19. And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them: and they +prepared the pasch. + +26:20. But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples. + +26:21. And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you that one +of you is about to betray me. + +26:22. And they being very much troubled began every one to say: Is it +I, Lord? + +26:23. But he answering said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the +dish, he shall betray me. + +26:24. The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to +that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for +him, if that man had not been born. + +26:25. And Judas that betrayed him answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He +saith to him: Thou hast said it. + +26:26. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and +broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my +body. + +This is my body. . .He does not say, This is the figure of my body--but +This is my body. (2 Council of Nice, Act. 6.) Neither does he say in +this, or with this is my body; but absolutely, This is my body: which +plainly implies transubstantiation. + +26:27. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks and gave to them, saying: +Drink ye all of this. + +Drink ye all of this. . .This was spoken to the twelve apostles; who +were the all then present; and they all drank of it, says St. Mark 14. +23. But it no ways follows from these words spoken to the apostles, +that all the faithful are here commanded to drink of the chalice; any +more than that all the faithful are commanded to consecrate, offer and +administer this sacrament; because Christ upon this same occasion, and +at the same time, bid the apostles do so; in these words, St. Luke 22. +19, Do this for a commemoration of me. + +26:28. For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed +for many unto remission of sins. + +Blood of the new testament. . .As the old testament was dedicated with +the blood of victims, by Moses, in these words: This is the blood of +the testament, etc., Heb. 9. 20; so here is the dedication and +institution of the new testament, in the blood of Christ, here +mystically shed by these words: This is the blood of the new testament, +etc. + +26:29. And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit +of the vine until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the +kingdom of my Father. + +Fruit of the vine. . .These words, by the account of St. Luke 26:22. 18, +were not spoken of the sacramental cup, but of the wine that was drunk +with the paschal lamb. Though the sacramental cup might also be called +the fruit of the vine, because it was consecrated from wine, and +retains the likeness, and all the accidents or qualities of wine. + +26:30. And a hymn being said, they went out unto mount Olivet. + +26:31. Then Jesus saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in me +this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd: and the +sheep of the flock shall be dispersed. + +Scandalized in me, etc. . .Forasmuch as my being apprehended shall make +you all run away and forsake me. + +26:32. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into +Galilee. + +26:33. And Peter answering, said to him: Although all shall be +scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized. + +26:34. Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee that in this night before +the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. + +26:35. Peter saith to him: Yea, though I should die with thee, I will +not deny thee. And in like manner said all the disciples. + +26:36. Then Jesus came with them into a country place which is called +Gethsemani. And he said to his disciples: Sit you here, till I go +yonder and pray. + +26:37. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began +to grow sorrowful and to be sad. + +26:38. Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. +Stay you here and watch with me. + +26:39. And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and +saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. +Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt. + +26:40. And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he +saith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me? + +26:41. Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit +indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. + +26:42. Again the second time, he went and prayed, saying: My Father, if +this chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done. + +26:43. And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping: for their eyes +were heavy. + +26:44. And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time, +saying the selfsame word. + +26:45. Then he cometh to his disciples and said to them: Sleep ye now +and take your rest. Behold the hour is at hand: and the Son of man +shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners. + +26:46. Rise: let us go. Behold he is at hand that will betray me. + +26:47. As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with +him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief +priests and the ancients of the people. + +26:48. And he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I +shall kiss, that is he. Hold him fast. + +26:49. And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said: Hail, Rabbi. And he +kissed him. + +26:50. And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they +came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him. + +26:51. And behold one of them that were with Jesus, stretching forth +his hand, drew out his sword: and striking the servant of the high +priest, cut off his ear. + +26:52. Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: +for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword. + +26:53. Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me +presently more than twelve legions of angels? + +26:54. How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be +done? + +26:55. In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come +out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I +sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on +me. + +26:56. Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might +be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled. + +26:57. But they holding Jesus led him to Caiphas the high priest, where +the scribes and the ancients were assembled. + +26:58. And Peter followed him afar off, even to the court of the high +priest, And going in, he sat with the servants, that he might see the +end. + +26:59. And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness +against Jesus, that they might put him to death. + +26:60. And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. +And last of all there came two false witnesses: + +26:61. And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of +God and after three days to rebuild it. + +26:62. And the high priest rising up, said to him: Answerest thou +nothing to the things which these witness against thee? + +26:63. But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I +adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ +the Son of God. + +26:64. Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to +you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand +of the power of God and coming in the clouds of heaven. + +26:65. Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath +blasphemed: What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you +have heard the blasphemy. + +26:66. What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death. + +26:67. Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others +struck his face with the palms of their hands, + +26:68. Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ. Who is he that struck thee? + +26:69. But Peter sat without in the court. And there came to him a +servant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean. + +26:70. But he denied before them all, saying: I know not what thou +sayest. + +26:71. And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him; and she +saith to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of +Nazareth. + +26:72. And again he denied with an oath: I know not the man. + +26:73. And after a little while, they came that stood by and said to +Peter: Surely thou also art one of them. For even thy speech doth +discover thee. + +26:74. Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. +And immediately the cock crew. + +26:75. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which he had said: Before +the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. And going forth, he wept +bitterly. + + + +Matthew Chapter 27 + + +The continuation of the history of the passion of Christ. His death and +burial. + +27:1. And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of +the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to +death. + +27:2. And they brought him bound and delivered him to Pontius Pilate +the governor. + +27:3. Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, +repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the +chief priests and ancients, + +27:4. Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: +What is that to us? Look thou to it. + +27:5. And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed +and went and hanged himself with an halter. + +27:6. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It +is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of +blood. + +Corbona. . .A place in the temple where the people put in their gifts or +offerings. + +27:7. And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the +potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers. + +27:8. For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the +field of blood, even to this day. + +27:9. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, +saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him +that was prized, whom they prized of the children of Israel. + +27:10. And they gave them unto the potter's field, as the Lord +appointed to me. + +27:11. And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, +saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? Jesus saith to him: Thou sayest +it. + +27:12. And when he was accused by the chief priests and ancients, he +answered nothing. + +27:13. Then Pilate saith to him: Dost not thou hear how great +testimonies they allege against thee? + +27:14. And he answered him to never a word, so that the governor +wondered exceedingly. + +27:15. Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release +to the people one prisoner, whom they would. + +27:16. And he had then a notorious prisoner that was called Barabbas. + +27:17. They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will +you that I release to You: Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ? + +27:18. For he knew that for envy they had delivered him. + +27:19. And as he was sitting in the place of judgment, his wife sent to +him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have +suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. + +27:20. But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people that +they should ask Barabbas and make Jesus away. + +27:21. And the governor answering, said to them: Whether will you of +the two to be released unto you? But they said: Barabbas. + +27:22. Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is +called Christ? They say all: Let him be crucified. + +27:23. The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they +cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. + +27:24. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a +tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, +saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it. + +27:25. And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and +upon our children. + +27:26. Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, +delivered him unto them to be crucified. + +27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the hall, +gathered together unto him the whole band. + +27:28. And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him. + +27:29. And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a +reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked +him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews. + +27:30. And spitting upon him, they took the reed and struck his head. + +27:31. And after they had mocked him, they took off the cloak from him +and put on him his own garments and led him away to crucify him. + +27:32. And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they +forced to take up his cross. + +27:33. And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the +place of Calvary. + +27:34. And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he +had tasted, he would not drink. + +27:35. And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, +casting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the +prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my +vesture they cast lots. + +27:36. And they sat and watched him. + +27:37. And they put over his head his cause written: THIS IS JESUS THE +KING OF THE JEWS. + +27:38. Then were crucified with him two thieves: one on the right hand +and one on the left. + +27:39. And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, + +27:40. And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in +three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of +God, come down from the cross. + +27:41. In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and +ancients, mocking said: + +27:42. He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of +Israel, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him. + +27:43. He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. +For he said: I am the Son of God. + +27:44. And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with +him reproached him with. + +27:45. Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole +earth, until the ninth hour. + +27:46. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: +Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou +forsaken me? + +27:47. And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth +Elias. + +27:48. And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it +with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink. + +27:49. And the others said: Let be. Let us see whether Elias will come +to deliver him. + +27:50. And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. + +27:51. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top +even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent. + +27:52. And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that +had slept arose, + +27:53. And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into +the holy city and appeared to many. + +27:54. Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, +having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore +afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God. + +27:55. And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus +from Galilee, ministering unto him: + +27:56. Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and +Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. + +27:57. And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of +Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. + +27:58. He went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate +commanded that the body should be delivered. + +27:59. And Joseph taking the body wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth: + +27:60. And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a +rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument and went +his way. + +27:61. And there was there Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, sitting +over against the sepulchre. + +27:62. And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the +chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, + +The day of preparation. . .The eve of the sabbath; so called, because on +that day they prepared all things necessary; not being allowed so much +as to dress their meat on the sabbath day. + +27:63. Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while +he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. + +27:64. Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third +day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the +people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse +than the first. + +27:65. Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you +know. + +27:66. And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone +and setting guards. + + + +Matthew Chapter 28 + + +The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples. + +28:1. And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the +first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see +the sepulchre. + +28:2. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord +descended from heaven and coming rolled back the stone and sat upon it. + +28:3. And his countenance was as lightning and his raiment as snow. + +28:4. And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror and +became as dead men. + +28:5. And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I +know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. + +28:6. He is not here. For he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the +place where the Lord was laid. + +28:7. And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen. And +behold he will go before you into Galilee. There you shall see him. Lo, +I have foretold it to you. + +28:8. And they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great +joy, running to tell his disciples. + +28:9. And behold, Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up +and took hold of his feet and adored him. + +28:10. Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go, tell my brethren that +they go into Galilee. There they shall see me. + +28:11. Who when they were departed, behold, some of the guards came +into the city and told the chief priests all things that had been done. + +28:12. And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking +counsel, gave a great sum of money to the soldiers, + +28:13. Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night and stole him away +when we were asleep. + +28:14. And if the governor shall hear of this, we will persuade him and +secure you. + +28:15. So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word +was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day. + +28:16. And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain +where Jesus had appointed them. + +28:17. And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. + +28:18. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to +me in heaven and in earth. + +All power, etc. . .See here the warrant and commission of the apostles +and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He +received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in +virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. +John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and +instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in +the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for +three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the +consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go +astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ +himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14. + +28:19. Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the +name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. + +28:20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded +you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the +world. + + + + +THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. MARK + + + +St. Mark, the disciple and interpreter of St. Peter (saith St. Jerome), +according to what he heard from Peter himself, wrote at Rome a brief +Gospel at the request of the Brethren, about ten years after our lord's +Ascension; which when Peter had heard, he approved of it and with his +authority published it to the church to be read. Baronius and others +say that the original was written in Latin: but the more general +opinion is that the Evangelist wrote it in Greek. + + + +Mark Chapter 1 + + +The preaching of John the Baptist. Christ is baptized by him. He calls +his disciples and works many miracles. + +1:1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. + +1:2. As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel +before thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee. + +1:3. A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the +Lord; make straight his paths. + +1:4. John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching the baptism of +penance, unto remission of sins. + +1:5. And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all they of +Jerusalem and were baptized by him in the river of Jordan, confessing +their sins. + +1:6. And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his +loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey. + +1:7. And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than +I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. + +1:8. I have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the +Holy Ghost. + +1:9. And it came to pass, in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of +Galilee and was baptized by John in Jordan. + +1:10. And forthwith coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens open +and the Spirit as a dove descending and remaining on him. + +1:11. And there came a voice from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son; in +thee I am well pleased. + +1:12. And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert. + +1:13. And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was +tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to +him. + +1:14. And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came in Galilee, +preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, + +1:15. And saying: The time is accomplished and the kingdom of God is at +hand. Repent and believe the gospel: + +1:16. And passing by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his +brother, casting nets into the sea for they were fishermen. + +1:17. And Jesus said to them: Come after me; and I will make you to +become fishers of men. + +1:18. And immediately leaving their nets, they followed him. + +1:19. And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son +of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in +the ship: + +1:20. And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in +the ship with his hired men, they followed him. + +1:21. And they entered into Capharnaum: and forthwith upon the sabbath +days going into the synagogue, he taught them. + +1:22. And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching +them as one having power, and not as the scribes. + +1:23. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; +and he cried out, + +1:24. Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou +come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God. + +1:25. And Jesus threatened him, saying: Speak no more, and go out of +the man. + +1:26. And the unclean spirit, tearing him and crying out with a loud +voice, went out of him. + +1:27. And they were all amazed insomuch that they questioned among +themselves, saying: What thing is this? What is this new doctrine? For +with power he commandeth even the unclean spirits: and they obey him. + +1:28. And the fame of him was spread forthwith into all the country of +Galilee. + +1:29. And immediately going out of the synagogue they came into the +house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. + +1:30. And Simon's wife's mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith +they tell him of her. + +1:31. And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and +immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. + +1:32. And when it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all +that were ill and that were possessed with devils. + +1:33. And all the city was gathered together at the door. + +1:34. And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases. And +he cast out many devils: and he suffered them not to speak, because +they knew him. + +1:35. And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: +and there he prayed. + +1:36. And Simon and they that were with him followed after him. + +1:37. And when they had found him, they said to him: All seek for thee. + +1:38. And he saith to them: Let us go into the neighbouring towns and +cities, that I may preach there also; for to this purpose am I come. + +1:39. And he was preaching in their synagogues and in all Galilee and +casting out devils. + +1:40. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down, +said to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean. + +1:41. And Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched forth his hand and +touching him saith to him: I will. Be thou made clean. + +1:42. And when he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from +him: and he was made clean. + +1:43. And he strictly charged him and forthwith sent him away. + +1:44. And he saith to him: See thou tell no one; but go, shew thyself +to the high priest and offer for thy cleansing the things that Moses +commanded, for a testimony to them. + +1:45. But he being gone out, began to publish and to blaze abroad the +word: so that he could not openly go into the city. but was without in +desert places. And they flocked to him from all sides. + + + +Mark Chapter 2 + + +Christ heals the sick of the palsy. He calls Matthew and excuses his +disciples. + +2:1. And again he entered into Capharnaum after some days. + +2:2. And it was heard that he was in the house. And many came together, +so that there was no room: no, not even at the door. And he spoke to +them the word. + +2:3. And they came to him, bringing one sick of the palsy, who was +carried by four. + +2:4. And when they could not offer him unto him for the multitude, they +uncovered the roof where he was: and opening it, they let down the bed +wherein the man sick of the palsy lay. + +2:5. And when Jesus had seen their faith, he saith to the sick of the +palsy: Son, thy sins are forgiven thee. + +2:6. And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in +their hearts: + +2:7. Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive +sins, but God only? + +2:8. Which Jesus presently knowing in his spirit that they so thought +within themselves, saith to them: Why think you these things in your +hearts? + +2:9. Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy: Thy sins are +forgiven thee; or to say: Arise, take up thy bed and walk? + +2:10. But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to +forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy): + +2:11. I say to thee: Arise. Take up thy bed and go into thy house. + +2:12. And immediately he arose and, taking up his bed, went his way in +the sight of all: so that all wondered and glorified God, saying: We +never saw the like. + +2:13. And he went forth again to the sea side: and all the multitude +came to him. And he taught them. + +2:14. And when he was passing by, he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, +sitting at the receipt of custom; and he saith to him: Follow me. And +rising up, he followed him. + +2:15. And it came to pass as he sat at meat in his house, many +Publicans and sinners sat down together with Jesus and his disciples. +For they, with Jesus who also followed him. For they were many, who +also followed him. + +2:16. And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with +publicans and sinners, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat +and drink with publicans and sinners? + +2:17. Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They that are well have no +need of a physician, but they that are sick. For I came not to call the +just, but sinners. + +2:18. And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And +they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the +Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast? + +2:19. And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, +as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the +bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. + +2:20. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away +from them: and then they shall fast in those days. + +2:21. No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise +the new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater +rent. + +2:22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine +will burst the bottles, and both the wine will be spilled and the +bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles. + +2:23. And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn +fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward and to +pluck the ears of corn. + +2:24. And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath +day that which is not lawful? + +2:25. And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he +had need and was hungry, himself and they that were with him? + +2:26. How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high +priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to +eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him? + +2:27. And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man +for the sabbath. + +2:28. Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also. + + + +Mark Chapter 3 + + +Christ heals the withered hand. He chooses the twelve. He confutes the +blasphemy of the Pharisees. + +3:1. And he entered again into the synagogue: and there was a man there +who had a withered hand. + +3:2. And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days, +that they might accuse him. + +3:3. And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the +midst. + +3:4. And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, +or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace. + +3:5. And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the +blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. +And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him. + +3:6. And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with +the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. + +3:7. But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great +multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea, + +3:8. And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and from beyond the Jordan. +And they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things +which he did, came to him. + +3:9. And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on +him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. + +3:10. For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch +him, as many as had evils. + +3:11. And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: +and they cried, saying: + +3:12. Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they +should not make him known. + +3:13. And going up into a mountain, he called unto him whom he would +himself: and they came to him. + +3:14. And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might +send them to preach. + +3:15. And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out +devils. + +3:16. And to Simon he gave the name Peter: + +3:17. And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and +he named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder. + +3:18. And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas +and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus and Simon the Cananean: + +3:19. And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. + +3:20. And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together +again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. + +3:21. And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold +on him. For they said: He is become mad. + +3:22. And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath +Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils. + +3:23. And after he had called them together, he said to them in +parables: How can Satan cast out Satan? + +3:24. And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot +stand. + +3:25. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot +stand. + +3:26. And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and +cannot stand, but hath an end. + +3:27. No man can enter into the house of a strong man and rob him of +his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he +plunder his house. + +3:28. Amen I say to you that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons +of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme: + +3:29. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never +have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin. + +3:30. Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit. + +3:31. And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent +unto him, calling him. + +3:32. And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy +mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. + +3:33. And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren? + +3:34. And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: +Behold my mother and my brethren. + +3:35. For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my +sister, and mother. + + + +Mark Chapter 4 + + +The parable of the sower. Christ stills the tempest at sea. + +4:1. And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude +was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat +in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side. + +4:2. And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in +his doctrine: + +4:3. Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow. + +4:4. And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of +the air came and ate it up. + +4:5. And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much +earth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth. + +4:6. And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no +root, it withered away. + +4:7. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked it, +and it yielded no fruit. + +4:8. And some fell upon good ground; and brought forth fruit that grew +up, and increased and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and another a +hundred. + +4:9. And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + +4:10. And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him +the parable. + +4:11. And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of +the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done +in parables: + +4:12. That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may +hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, +and their sins should be forgiven them. + +That seeing they may see, etc. . .in punishment of their wilfully +shutting their eyes, (St. Matt. 13. 15,) God justly withdrew those +lights and graces, which otherwise he would have given them, for their +effectual conversion. + +4:13. And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how +shall you know all parables? + +4:14. He that soweth, soweth the word. + +4:15. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and +as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away +the word that was sown in their hearts. + +4:16. And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: +who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. + +4:17. And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and +then when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are +presently scandalized. + +4:18. And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they +that hear the word, + +4:19. And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and +the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made +fruitless. + +4:20. And these are they who are sown upon the good ground, who hear +the word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the one thirty, another +sixty, and another a hundred. + +4:21. And he said to them: Doth a candle come in to be put under a +bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? + +4:22. For there is nothing hid, which shall not be made manifest: +neither was it made secret, but that it may come abroad. + +4:23. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. + +4:24. And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you +shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given +to you. + +4:25. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, +that also which he hath shall be taken away from him. + +4:26. And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast +seed into the earth, + +4:27. And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should +spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not. + +4:28. For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, +then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. + +4:29. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in +the sickle, because the harvest is come. + +4:30. And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to +what parable shall we compare it? + +4:31. It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the +earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth: + +4:32. And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all +herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air +may dwell under the shadow thereof. + +4:33. And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according +as they were able to hear. + +4:34. And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he +explained all things to his disciples. + +4:35. And he saith to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass +over to the other side. + +4:36. And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in +the ship: and there were other ships with him. + +4:37. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into +the ship, so that the ship was filled. + +4:38. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleeping upon a +pillow; and they awake him, and say to him: Master, doth, it not +concern thee that we perish? + +4:39. And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace, +be still. And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm. + +4:40. And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet? +And they feared exceedingly: and they said one to another: Who is this +(thinkest thou) that both wind and sea obey him? + + + +Mark Chapter 5 + + +Christ casts out a legion of devils: he heals the issue of blood, and +raises the daughter of Jairus to life. + +5:1. And they came over the strait of the sea, into the country of the +Gerasens. + +5:2. And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of +the monuments a man with an unclean spirit, + +5:3. Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, +not even with chains. + +5:4. For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst +the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame +him. + +5:5. And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the +mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones. + +5:6. And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him. + +5:7. And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with +thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that +thou torment me not. + +5:8. For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit. + +5:9. And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name +is Legion, for we are many. + +5:10. And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of +the country. + +5:11. And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, +feeding. + +5:12. And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, +that we may enter into them. + +5:13. And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits +going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was +carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, were stifled +in the sea. + +5:14. And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the +fields. And they went out to see what was done: + +5:15. And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with +the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were +afraid. + +5:16. And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been +dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine. + +5:17. And they began to pray him that he would depart from their +coasts. + +5:18. And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with +the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him. + +5:19. And he admitted him not, but saith him: Go into thy house to thy +friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, +and hath had mercy thee. + +5:20. And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great +things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered. + +5:21. And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a +great multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the +sea. + +5:22. And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus: +and seeing him, falleth down at his feet. + +5:23. And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of +death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live. + +5:24. And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and +they thronged him. + +5:25. And a woman who was under an issue of blood twelve years, + +5:26. And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent +all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse, + +5:27. When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and +touched his garment. + +5:28. For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole. + +5:29. And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she +felt in her body that she was healed of the evil. + +5:30. And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had +proceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my +garments? + +5:31. And his disciples said to him: Thou seest the multitude thronging +thee, and sayest thou who hath touched me? + +5:32. And he looked about to see her who had done this. + +5:33. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in +her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. + +5:34. And he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go +in peace, and be thou whole of thy disease. + +5:35. While he was yet speaking, some come from the ruler of the +synagogue's house, saying: Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble +the master any further? + +5:36. But Jesus having heard the word that was spoken, saith to the +ruler of the synagogue: Fear not, only believe. + +5:37. And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James, +and John the brother of James. + +5:38. And they cone to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he +seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much. + +5:39. And going in, he saith to them Why make you this ado, and weep? +the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. + +5:40. And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, +taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with +him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. + +5:41. And taking the damsel by the hand, he saith to her: Talitha cumi, +which is, being interpreted: Damsel (I say to thee) arise. + +5:42. And immediately the damsel rose up, and walked: and she was +twelve years old: and they were astonished with a great astonishment. + +5:43. And he charged them strictly that no man should know it: and +commanded that something should be given her to eat. + + + +Mark Chapter 6 + + +Christ teaches at Nazareth: he sends forth the twelve apostles: he +feeds five thousand with five loaves; and walks upon the sea. + +6:1. And going out from thence, he went into his own country; and his +disciples followed him. + +6:2. And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: +and many hearing him were in admiration at his doctrine, saying: How +came this man by all these things? and what wisdom is this that is +given to him, and such mighty works as are wrought by his hands? + +6:3. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, +and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us? +And they were scandalized in regard of him. + +6:4. And Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, but in +his own country, and in his own house, and among his own kindred. + +6:5. And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few +that were sick, laying his hands upon them. + +He could not. . .Not for want of power, but because he would not work +miracles in favour of obstinate and incredulous people, who were +unworthy of such favours. + +6:6. And he wondered because of their unbelief, and he went through the +villages round about teaching. + +6:7. And he called the twelve; and began to send them two and two, and +gave them power over unclean spirits. + +6:8. And he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, +but a staff only; no scrip, no bread, nor money in their purse, + +6:9. But to be shod with sandals, and that they should not put on two +coats. + +6:10. And he said to them: Wheresoever you shall enter into an house, +there abide till you depart from that place. + +6:11. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth +from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them. + +6:12. And going forth they preached men should do penance: + +6:13. And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that +were sick, and healed them. + +6:14. And king Herod heard, (for his name was made manifest,) and he +said: John the Baptist is risen again from dead, and therefore mighty +works shew forth themselves in him. + +6:15. And others said: It is Elias. But others said: It is a prophet, +as one of the prophets. + +6:16. Which Herod hearing, said: John whom I beheaded, he is risen +again from the dead. + +6:17. For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him +prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because +he had married her. + +6:18. For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy +brother's wife. + +6:19. Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to +death and could not. + +6:20. For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and +kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him +willingly. + +And kept him. . .That is, from the designs of Herodias; and for fear of +the people, would not put him to death, though she sought it; and +through her daughter she effected her wish. + +6:21. And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his +birthday, for the princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee. + +6:22. And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had +danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the +king said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it +thee. + +6:23. And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, +though it be the half of my kingdom. + +6:24. Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? +But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist. + +6:25. And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she +asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head +of John the Baptist. + +6:26. And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because +of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her: + +6:27. But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be +brought in a dish. + +6:28. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a +dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother. + +6:29. Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it +in a tomb. + +6:30. And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all +things that they had done and taught. + +6:31. And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a +little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much +as time to eat. + +6:32. And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart. + +6:33. And they saw them going away, and many knew: and they ran +flocking thither foot from all the cities, and were there before them. + +6:34. And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion +on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began +to teach them many things. + +6:35. And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, +saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: + +6:36. Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they +may buy themselves meat to eat. + +6:37. And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they +said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will +give them to eat. + +6:38. And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And +when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes. + +6:39. And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by +companies upon the green grass. + +6:40. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. + +6:41. And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: +looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his +disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them +all. + +6:42. And they all did eat, and had their fill. + +6:43. And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, +and of the fishes. + +6:44. And they that did eat, were five thousand men. + +6:45. And immediately he obliged his disciples to go up into the ship, +that they might go before him over the water to Bethsaida, whilst he +dismissed the people. + +6:46. And when he had dismissed them, he went up to the mountain to +pray, + +6:47. And when it was late, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and +himself alone on the land. + +6:48. And seeing them labouring in rowing, (for the wind was against +them,) and about the fourth watch of the night, he cometh to them +walking upon the sea, and he would have passed by them. + +6:49. But they seeing him walking upon the sea, thought it was an +apparition, and they cried out. + +6:50. For they all saw him, and were troubled bled. And immediately he +spoke with them, and said to them: Have a good heart, it is I, fear ye +not. + +6:51. And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased: and +they were far more astonished within themselves: + +6:52. For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart +was blinded. + +6:53. And when they had passed over, they came into the land of +Genezareth, and set to the shore. + +6:54. And when they were gone out of the ship, immediately they knew +him: + +6:55. And running through that whole country, they began to carry about +in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was. + +6:56. And whithersoever he entered, into towns or into villages or +cities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they +might touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were +made whole. + + + +Mark Chapter 7 + + +Christ rebukes the Pharisees. He heals the daughter of the woman of +Chanaan; and the man that was deaf and dumb. + +7:1. And there assembled together unto him the Pharisees and some of +the scribes, coming from Jerusalem. + +7:2. And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with +common, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. + +7:3. For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing +their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients. + +7:4. And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they +eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to +them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels +and of beds. + +7:5. And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples +walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread +with common hands? + +7:6. But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you +hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, +but their heart is far from me. + +7:7. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of +men. + +Doctrines and precepts of men. . .See the annotations, Matt. 15. 9, 11. + +7:8. For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, +the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to +these. + +7:9. And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, +that you may keep your own tradition. + +7:10. For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that +shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. + +7:11. But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban +(which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee. + +7:12. And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or +mother, + +7:13. Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have +given forth. And many other such like things you do. + +7:14. And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear +ye me all and understand. + +7:15. There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can +defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that +defile a man. + +7:16. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. + +7:17. And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his +disciples asked him the parable. + +7:18. And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? +Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man +cannot defile him: + +7:19. Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly +and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? + +7:20. But he said that the things which come out from a man, they +defile a man. + +7:21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, +adulteries, fornications, murders, + +7:22. Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil +eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. + +7:23. All these evil things come from within and defile a man. + +7:24. And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon: +and entering into a house, he would that no man should know it. And he +could not be hid. + +7:25. For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an +unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet. + +7:26. For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she +besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. + +7:27. Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it +is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs. + +7:28. But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also +eat under the table of the crumbs of the children. + +7:29. And he said to her: For this saying, go thy way. The devil is +gone out of thy daughter. + +7:30. And when she was come into her house, she found the girl lying +upon the bed and that the devil was gone out. + +7:31. And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to +the sea of Galilee, through the midst the of the coasts of Decapolis. + +7:32. And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him +that he would lay his hand upon him. + +7:33. And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into +his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue. + +7:34. And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, +which is, Be thou opened. + +7:35. And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue +was loosed and he spoke right. + +7:36. And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he +charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it. + +7:37. And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all +things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. + + + +Mark Chapter 8 + + +Christ feeds four thousand. He gives sight to a blind man. He foretells +his passion. + +8:1. In those days again, when there was great multitude and they had +nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them: + +8:2. I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been +with me three days and have nothing to eat. + +8:3. And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will +faint in the way: for some of them came from afar off. + +8:4. And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them +here with bread in the wilderness? + +8:5. And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven. + +8:6. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground. And taking +the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke and gave to his disciples for +to set before them. And they set them before the people. + +8:7. And they had a few little fishes: and he blessed them and +commanded them to be set before them. + +8:8. And they did eat and were filled: and they took up that which was +left of the fragments, seven baskets. + +8:9. And they that had eaten were about four thousand. And he sent them +away. + +8:10. And immediately going up into a ship with his disciples, he came +into the parts of Dalmanutha. + +8:11. And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him, +asking him a sign from heaven, tempting him. + +8:12. And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation +seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this +generation. + +8:13. And leaving them, he went up again into the ship and passed to +the other side of the water. + +8:14. And they forgot to take bread: and they had but one loaf with +them in the ship. + +8:15. And he charged them saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of +the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. + +8:16. And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no +bread. + +8:17. Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because +you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still +your heart blinded? + +8:18. Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not? Neither +do you remember? + +8:19. When I broke the five loves among five thousand, how many baskets +full of fragments took you up? They say to him: Twelve. + +8:20. When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets +of fragments took you up? And they say to him: Seven. + +8:21. And he said to them: How do you not yet understand? + +8:22. And they came to Bethsaida: and they bring to him a blind man. +And they besought him that he would touch him. + +8:23. And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town. +And spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he +saw any thing. + +8:24. And looking up, he said: I see men, as it were trees, walking. + +8:25. After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes: and he began to +see and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly. + +8:26. And he sent him into his house, saying: Go into thy house, and if +thou enter into the town, tell nobody. + +8:27. And Jesus went out, and his disciples into the towns of Caesarea +Philippi. And in the way, he asked his disciples, saying to them: Whom +do men say that I am? + +8:28. Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist; but some Elias, and +others as one of the prophets. + +8:29. Then he saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Peter +answering said to him: Thou art the Christ. + +8:30. And he strictly charged them that they should not tell any man of +him. + +8:31. And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many +things and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and the +scribes: and be killed and after three days rise again. + +8:32. And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him began to +rebuke him. + +8:33. Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, +saying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savourest not the things that +are of God but that are of men. + +8:34. And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to +them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his +cross and follow me. + +8:35. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever +shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel shall save it. + +8:36. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and +suffer the loss of his soul? + +8:37. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul: + +8:38. For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this +adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed +of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy +angels. + +8:39. And he said to them: Amen f say to you that there are some of +them that stand here who shall not taste death till they see the +kingdom of God coming in power. + + + +Mark Chapter 9 + + +Christ is transfigured. He casts out the dumb spirit. He teaches +humility and to avoid scandal. + +9:1. And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and +John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves, +and was transfigured before them. + +9:2. And his garments became shining and exceeding white as snow, so as +no fuller upon earth can make white. + +9:3. And there appeared to them Elias with Moses: and they were talking +with Jesus. + +9:4. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Rabbi, it is good for us to be +here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for +Moses, and one for Elias. + +9:5. For he knew not what he said: for they were struck with fear. + +9:6. And there was a cloud overshadowing them. And a voice came out of +the cloud, saying: This is my most beloved Son. Hear ye him. + +9:7. And immediately looking about, they saw no man any more, but Jesus +only with them. + +9:8. And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them not to +tell any man what things they had seen, till the Son of man shall be +risen again from the dead. + +9:9. And they kept the word to themselves; questioning together what +that should mean, when he shall be risen from the dead. + +9:10. And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes +say that Elias must come first? + +9:11. Who answering, said to then: Elias, when he shall come first, +shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that +he must suffer many things and be despised. + +9:12. But I say to you that Elias also is come (and they have done to +him whatsoever they would), as it is written of him. + +9:13. And coming to his disciples he saw a great multitude about them +and the scribes disputing with them. + +9:14. And presently all the people, seeing Jesus, were astonished and +struck with fear: and running to him, they saluted him. + +9:15. And he asked them: What do you question about among you? + +9:16. And one of the multitude, answering, said: Master, I have brought +my son to thee, having a dumb spirit. + +9:17. Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and +gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples +to cast him out: and they could not. + +9:18. Who answering them, said: O incredulous generation, how long +shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me. + +9:19. And they brought him. And when he had seen him, immediately the +spirit troubled him and being thrown down upon the ground, he rolled +about foaming. + +9:20. And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath +happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy. + +9:21. And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters +to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having +compassion on us. + +9:22. And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are +possible to him that believeth. + +9:23. And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears +said: I do believe, Lord. Help my unbelief. + +9:24. And when Jesus saw the multitude running together, he threatened +the unclean spirit, saying to him: Deaf and dumb spirit, I command +thee, go out of him and enter not any more into him. + +9:25. And crying out and greatly tearing him, he went our of him. And +he became as dead, so that many said: He is dead. + +9:26. But Jesus taking him by the hand, lifted him up. And he arose. + +9:27. And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked +him: Why could not we cast him out? + +9:28. And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by +prayer and fasting. + +9:29. And departing from thence, they passed through Galilee: and he +would not that any man should know it. + +9:30. And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man +shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and +after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day. + +9:31. But they understood not the word: and they were afraid to ask +him. + +9:32. And they came to Capharnaum. And when they were in the house, he +asked them: What did you treat of in the way? + +9:33. But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among +themselves, which of them should be the greatest. + +9:34. And sitting down, he called the twelve and saith to them: If any +man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all and be minister of +all. + +9:35. And taking a child, he set him in the midst of them. Whom when he +had embraced, he saith to them: + +9:36. Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name +receiveth me. And whosoever shall receive me receiveth not me but him +that sent me. + +9:37. John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils +in thy name, who followeth not us: and we forbade him. + +9:38. But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth +a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me. + +9:39. For he that is not against you is for you. + +9:40. For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, +because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his +reward. + +9:41. And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that +believe in me: it were better for him that a millstone were hanged +about his neck and he were cast into the sea. + +9:42. And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for +thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, +into unquenchable fire: + +9:43. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. + +9:44. And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for +thee to enter lame into life everlasting than having two feet to be +cast into the hell of unquenchable fire: + +9:45. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. + +9:46. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out: it is better for +thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God than having two eyes +to be cast into the hell of fire: + +9:47. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished. + +9:48. For every one shall be salted with fire: and every victim shall +be salted with salt. + +9:49. Salt is good. But if the salt become unsavoury, wherewith will +you season it? Have salt in you: and have peace among you. + + + +Mark Chapter 10 + + +Marriage is not to be dissolved. The danger of riches. The ambition of +the sons of Zebedee. A blind man is restored to his sight. + +10:1. And rising up from thence, he cometh into the coast of Judea +beyond the Jordan: and the multitude flocked to him again. And as he +was accustomed, he taught them again. + +10:2. And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it +lawful for a man to put away his wife? + +10:3. But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you? + +10:4. Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put +her away. + +10:5. To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your +heart, he wrote you that precept. + +10:6. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and +female. + +10:7. For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall +cleave to his wife. + +10:8. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not +two, but one flesh. + +10:9. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. + +10:10. And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the +same thing. + +10:11. And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and +marry another committeth adultery against her. + +10:12. And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to +another, she committeth adultery. + +10:13. And they brought to him young children, that he might touch +them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them. + +10:14. Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased and saith to them: +Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of +such is the kingdom of God. + +10:15. Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of +God as a little child shall not enter into it. + +10:16. And embracing them and laying his hands upon them, he blessed +them. + +10:17. And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running +up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do +that I may receive life everlasting? + +10:18. And Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me good? None is good +but one, that is God. + +None is good. . .Of himself entirely and essentially, but God alone; men +may be good also, but only by participation of God's goodness. + +10:19. Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not +kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy +father and mother. + +10:20. But he answering, said to him: Master, all these things I have +observed from my youth. + +10:21. And Jesus, looking on him, loved him and said to him: One thing +is wanting unto thee. Go, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the +poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me. + +10:22. Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he +had great possessions. + +10:23. And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How +hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! + +10:24. And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again +answering, saith to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust +in riches to enter into the kingdom of God? + +10:25. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle +than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. + +10:26. Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be +saved? + +10:27. And Jesus looking on them, saith with men it is impossible; but +not with God. For all things are possible with God. + +10:28. And Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left all things +and have followed thee. + +10:29. Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who +hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children +or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, + +10:30. Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this +time: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and +lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting. + +10:31. But many that are first shall be last: and the last, first. + +10:32. And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went +before them. And they were astonished and following were afraid. And +taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should +befall him. + +10:33. Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall +be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and ancients. And +they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles. + +10:34. And they shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill +him: and the third day he shall rise again. + +10:35. And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying: +Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for +us. + +10:36. But he said to them: What would you that I should do for you? + +10:37. And they said: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right +hand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. + +10:38. And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink +of the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism +wherewith I am baptized? + +10:39. But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You +shall indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of; and with the baptism +wherewith I am baptized you shall be baptized. + +10:40. But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to +you, but to them for whom it is prepared. + +10:41. And the ten, hearing it, began to be much displeased at James +and John. + +10:42. But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You know that they who +seem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them: and their princes +have power over them. + +10:43. But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater shall +be your minister. + +10:44. And whosoever will be first among you shall be the servant of +all. + +10:45. For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but +to minister and to give his life a redemption for many. + +10:46. And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his +disciples and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son +of Timeus, sat by the way side begging. + +10:47. Who when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to +cry out and to say: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. + +10:48. And many rebuked him, that he might hold his peace; but he cried +a great deal the more: Son of David, have mercy on me. + +10:49. And Jesus, standing still, commanded him to be called. And they +call the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort. Arise, he +calleth thee. + +10:50. Who casting off his garment leaped up and came to him. + +10:51. And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should +do to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni. That I may see. + +10:52. And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee +whole. And immediately he saw and followed him in the way. + + + +Mark Chapter 11 + + +Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass. He curses the barren fig tree +and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple. + +11:1. And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem and to Bethania, at +the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples, + +11:2. And saith to them: Go into the village that is over against you, +and immediately at your coming in thither, you shall find a colt tied, +upon which no man yet hath sat. Loose him and bring him. + +11:3. And if any man shall say to you: What are you doing? Say ye that +the Lord hath need of him. And immediately he will let him come hither. + +11:4. And going their way, they found the colt tied before the gate +without, in the meeting of two ways. And they loose him. + +11:5. And some of them that stood there said to them: What do you +loosing the colt? + +11:6. Who said to them as Jesus had commanded them. And they let him go +with them. + +11:7. And they brought the colt to Jesus. And they lay their garments +on him: and he sat upon him. + +11:8. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down +boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way. + +11:9. And they that went before and they that followed cried, saying: +Hosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. + +11:10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna +in the highest. + +11:11. And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having +viewed all things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went +out to Bethania with the twelve. + +11:12. And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was +hungry. + +11:13. And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came, +if perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, +he found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs. + +11:14. And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of +thee any more for ever! And his disciples heard it. + +11:15. And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the +temple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple: +and over threw the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of them +that sold doves. + +11:16. And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through +the temple. + +11:17. And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall +be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a +den of thieves. + +11:18. Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they +sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the +whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine. + +11:19. And when evening was come, he went forth out of the city. + +11:20. And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree +dried up from the roots. + +11:21. And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree +which thou didst curse is withered away. + +11:22. And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God. + +11:23. Amen I say to you that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be +thou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not stagger in his +heart, but be believe that whatsoever he saith shall be done; it shall +be done unto him. + +11:24. Therefore I say unto you, all things, whatsoever you ask when ye +pray, believe that you shall receive: and they shall come unto you. + +11:25. And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught +against any man: that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive +you your sins. + +11:26. But if you will not forgive, neither will your father that is in +heaven forgive you your sins. + +11:27. And they come again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the +temple, there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the +ancients. + +11:28. And they say to him: By what authority dost thou these things? +And who hath given thee this authority that thou shouldst do these +things? + +11:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one word. +And answer you me: and I will tell you by what authority I do these +things. + +11:30. The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? Answer me. + +11:31. But they thought with themselves, saying: If we say, From +heaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him? + +11:32. If we say, From men, we fear the people. For all men counted +John that he was a prophet indeed. + +11:33. And they answering, say to Jesus: We know not. And Jesus +answering, saith to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do +these things. + + + +Mark Chapter 12 + + +The parable of the vineyard and husbandmen. Caesar's right to tribute. +The Sadducees are confuted. The first commandment. The widow's mite. + +12:1. And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted +a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat +and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far +country. + +12:2. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive +of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. + +12:3. Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty. + +12:4. And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded +in the head and used him reproachfully. + +12:5. And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, +of whom some they beat, and others they killed. + +12:6. Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him +unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son. + +12:7. But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come +let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours. + +12:8. And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the +vineyard. + +12:9. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and +destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. + +12:10. And have you not read this scripture, The stone which the +builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: + +12:11. By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes. + +12:12. And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. +For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they +went their way. + +12:13. And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: +that they should catch him in his words. + +12:14. Who coming, say to him: Master, we know that thou art a true +speaker and carest not for any man; for thou regardest not the person +of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give +tribute to Caesar? Or shall we not give it? + +12:15. Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me? +Bring me a penny that I may see it. + +12:16. And they brought it him. And he saith to them: Whose is this +image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. + +12:17. And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar +the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And +they marvelled at him. + +12:18. And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no +resurrection. And they asked him, saying: + +12:19. Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man's brother die and +leave his wife behind him and leave no children, his brother should +take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. + +12:20. Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife and +died leaving no issue. + +12:21. And the second took her and died: and neither did he leave any +issue. And the third in like manner. + +12:22. And the seven all took her in like manner and did not leave +issue. Last of all the woman also died. + +12:23. In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose +wife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife. + +12:24. And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, +because you know not the scriptures nor the power of God? + +12:25. For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither +marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven. + +12:26. And as concerning the dead that they rise again have you not +read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I +am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? + +12:27. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore +do greatly err. + +12:28. And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning +together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which +was the first commandment of all. + +12:29. And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O +Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. + +12:30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and +with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole +strength. This is the first commandment. + +12:31. And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as +thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. + +12:32. And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in +truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him. + +12:33. And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the +whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole +strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing +than all holocausts and sacrifices. + +12:34. And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou +art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask +him any question. + +12:35. And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the +scribes say that Christ is the son of David? + +12:36. For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost: The Lord said to my +Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool. + +12:37. David therefore himself calleth him Lord. And whence is he then +his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly. + +12:38. And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who +love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace, + +12:39. And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the +highest places at suppers: + +12:40. Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long +prayer. These shall receive greater judgment. + +12:41. And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the +people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in +much. + +12:42. And there came a certain poor widow: and she cast in two mites, +which make a farthing. + +12:43. And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say +to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast +into the treasury. + +12:44. For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want +cast in all she had, even her whole living. + + + +Mark Chapter 13 + + +Christ foretells the destruction of the temple and the signs that shall +forerun the day of judgment. + +13:1. And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said +to him: Master, behold what manner of stones and what buildings are +here. + +13:2. And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great +buildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not +be thrown down. + +13:3. And as he sat on the mount of Olivet over against the temple, +Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart: + +13:4. Tell us, when shall these things be and what shall be the sign +when all these things shall begin to be fulfilled? + +13:5. And Jesus answering, began to say to them: Take heed lest any man +deceive you. + +13:6. For many shall come in my name saying, I am he: and they shall +deceive many. + +13:7. And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not. +For such things must needs be: but the end is not yet. + +13:8. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: +and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These +things are the beginning of sorrows. + +13:9. But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you Up to +councils: and in the synagogues you shall be beaten: and you shall +stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto +them. + +13:10. And unto all nations the gospel must first be preached. + +13:11. And when they shall lead you and deliver you up, be not +thoughtful beforehand what you shall speak: but whatsoever shall be +given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak, +but the Holy Ghost. + +13:12. And the brother shall betray his brother unto death, and the +father his son; and children shall rise up against their parents and +shall work their death. + +13:13. And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. But he +that shall endure unto the end, he shall be saved. + +13:14. And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing +where it ought not (he that readeth let him understand): then let them +that are in Judea flee unto the mountains. + +13:15. And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house +nor enter therein to take any thing out of the house. + +13:16. And let him that shall be in the field not turn back to take up +his garment. + +13:17. And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those +days. + +13:18. But pray ye that these things happen not in winter. + +13:19. For in those days shall be such tribulations as were not from +the beginning of the creation which God created until now: neither +shall be. + +13:20. And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be +saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath +shortened the days. + +13:21. And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ. Lo, he +is here: do not believe. + +13:22. For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets: and +they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even +the elect. + +13:23. Take you heed therefore: behold, I have foretold you all things. + +13:24. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be +darkened and the moon shall not give her light. + +13:25. And the stars of heaven shall be falling down and the powers +that are in heaven shall be moved. + +13:26. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds, +with great power and glory. + +13:27. And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his +elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the +uttermost part of heaven. + +13:28. Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof +is now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is +very near. + +13:29. So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know +ye that it is very nigh, even at the doors. + +13:30. Amen, I say to you that this generation shall not pass until all +these things be done. + +13:31. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass +away. + +13:32. But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in +heaven, nor the Son, but the Father. + +Nor the Son. . .Not that the Son of God is absolutely ignorant of the +day of judgment, but that he knoweth it not, as our teacher; that is, +he knoweth it not so as to teach it to us, as not being expedient. + +13:33. Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. + +13:34. Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and +gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter +to watch. + +13:35. Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house +cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the +morning): + +13:36. Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping. + +13:37. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch. + + + +Mark Chapter 14 + + +The first part of the history of the passion of Christ. + +14:1. Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: +and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some +wile lay hold on him and kill him. + +Azymes. . .That is, the feast of the unleavened bread. + +14:2. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a +tumult among the people. + +14:3. And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and +was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of +precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out +upon his head. + +14:4. Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and +said: Why was this waste of the ointment made? + +14:5. For this ointment might have been sold for more than three +hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her. + +14:6. But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath +wrought a good work upon me. + +14:7. For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, +you may do them good: but me you have not always. + +14:8. She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my +body for the burial. + +14:9. Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in +the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a +memorial of her. + +14:10. And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief +priests, to betray him to them. + +14:11. Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give +him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him. + +14:12. Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they +sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that +we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch? + +14:13. And he sendeth two of his disciples and saith to them: Go ye +into the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of +water. Follow him. + +14:14. And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the +house, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the +pasch with my disciples? + +14:15. And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there +prepare ye for us. + +14:16. And his disciples went their way and came into the city. And +they found as he had told them: and they prepared the pasch. + +14:17. And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve. + +14:18. And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say +to you, one of you that eateth with me shall betray me. + +14:19. But they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one by one: Is +it I? + +14:20. Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who dippeth with me his +hand in the dish. + +14:21. And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but +woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were +better for him, if that man had not been born. + +14:22. And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, +broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body. + +14:23. And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. +And they all drank of it. + +14:24. And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, +which shall be shed for many. + +14:25. Amen I say to you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the +vine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God. + +14:26. And when they had sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of +Olives. + +14:27. And Jesus saith to them: You will all be scandalized in my +regard this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and +the sheep shall be dispersed. + +14:28. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into +Galilee. + +14:29. But Peter saith to him: Although all shall be scandalized in +thee, yet not I. + +14:30. And Jesus saith to him: Amen I say to thee, to-day, even in this +night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. + +Crow twice. . .The cocks crow at two different times of the night; viz., +about midnight for the first time; and then about the time commonly +called the cock crowing; and this was the cock crowing our Saviour +spoke of; and therefore the other Evangelists take no notice of the +first crowing. + +14:31. But he spoke the more vehemently: Although I should die together +with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all. + +14:32. And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his +disciples: Sit you here, while I pray. + +14:33. And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to +fear and to be heavy. + +14:34. And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay +you here and watch. + +14:35. And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the +ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from +him. + +14:36. And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: +remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt. + +14:37. And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: +Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? + +14:38. Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The +spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. + +14:39. And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words. + +14:40. And when he returned, he found them again asleep (for their eyes +were heavy): and they knew not what to answer him. + +14:41. And he cometh the third time and saith to them: Sleep ye now and +take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come: behold the Son of man +shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners. + +14:42. Rise up: let us go. Behold, he that will betray me is at hand. + +14:43. And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the +twelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the +chief priests and the scribes and the ancients. + +14:44. And he that betrayed him had given them a sign, saying: +Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Lay hold on him: and lead him away +carefully. + +14:45. And when he was come, immediately going up to him he saith: +Hail, Rabbi! And he kissed him. + +14:46. But they laid hands on him and held him. + +14:47. And one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant +of the chief priest and cut off his ear. + +14:48. And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a +robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me? + +14:49. I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay +hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled. + +14:50. Then his disciples, leaving him, all fled away. + +14:51. And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth cast +about his naked body. And they laid hold on him. + +14:52. But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked. + +14:53. And they brought Jesus to the high priest. And all the priests +and the scribes and the ancients assembled together. + +14:54. And Peter followed him afar off, even into the court of the high +priest. And he sat with the servants at the fire and warmed himself. + +14:55. And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence +against Jesus, that they might put him to death: and found none. + +14:56. For many bore false witness against him: and their evidences +were not agreeing. + +14:57. And some rising up, bore false witness against him, saying: + +14:58. We heard him say, I Will destroy this temple made with hands and +within three days I will build another not made with hands. + +14:59. And their witness did not agree. + +14:60. And the high priest rising up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying: +Answerest thou nothing to the things that are laid to thy charge by +these men? + +14:61. But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high +priest asked him and said to him: Art thou the Christ, the Son of the +Blessed God? + +14:62. And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man +sitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming with the +clouds of heaven. + +14:63. Then the high priest rending his garments, saith: What need we +any further witnesses? + +14:64. You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned +him to be guilty of death. + +14:65. And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to +buffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him +with the palms their hands. + +14:66. Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the +maidservants of the high priest. + +14:67. And when she had seen Peter warming himself looking on him, she +saith: Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. + +14:68. But he denied, saying: I neither know nor understand what thou +sayest. And he went forth before the court; and the cock crew. + +14:69. And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers +by: This is one of them. + +14:70. But he denied again. And after a, while they that stood by said +again to Peter: Surely thou art one of them; for thou art also a +Galilean. + +14:71. But he began o curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man +of whom you speak. + +14:72. And immediately the cock crew again. And Peter remembered the +word that Jesus had said unto him: Before the cock crow twice, thou +shalt thrice deny me. And he began to weep, + + + +Mark Chapter 15 + + +The continuation of the history of the passion. + +15:1. And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a +consultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council, +binding Jesus, led him away and delivered him to Pilate. + +15:2. And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he +answering, saith to him: Thou sayest it. + +15:3. And the chief priests accused him in many things. + +15:4. And Pilate again asked him, saying: Answerest thou nothing? +Behold in how many things they accuse thee. + +15:5. But Jesus still answered nothing: so that Pilate wondered. + +15:6. Now on the festival day he was wont to release unto them one of +the prisoners, whomsoever they demanded. + +15:7. And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with +some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder. + +15:8. And when the multitude was come up, they began to desire that he +would do as he had ever done unto them. + +15:9. And Pilate answered them and said: Will you that I release to you +the king of the Jews? + +15:10. For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up out of +envy. + +15:11. But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather +release Barabbas to them. + +15:12. And Pilate again answering, saith to them: What will you then +that I do to the king of the Jews? + +15:13. But they again cried out: Crucify him. + +15:14. And Pilate saith to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they +cried out the more: Crucify him. + +15:15. And so Pilate being willing to satisfy the people, released to +them Barabbas: and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be +crucified. + +15:16. And the soldiers led him away into the court of the palace: and +they called together the whole band. + +15:17. And they clothed him with purple: and, platting a crown of +thorns, they put it upon him. + +15:18. And they began to salute him: Hail, king of the Jews. + +15:19. And they struck his head with a reed: and they did spit on him. +And bowing their knees, they adored him. + +15:20. And after they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him +and put his own garments on him: and they led him out to crucify him. + +15:21. And they forced one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out +of the country, the father of Alexander and of Rufus, to take up his +cross. + +15:22. And they bring him into the place called Golgotha, which being +interpreted is, The place of Calvary. + +15:23. And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh. But he took +it not. + +15:24. And crucifying him, they divided his garments, casting lots upon +them, what every man should take. + +15:25. And it was the third hour: and they crucified him. + +The third hour. . .The ancient account divided the day into four parts, +which were named from the hour from which they began; the first, third, +sixth, and ninth hour. Our Lord was crucified a little before noon; +before the third hour had quite expired; but when the sixth hour was +near at hand. + +15:26. And the inscription of his cause was written over: THE KING OF +THE JEWS. + +15:27. And with him they crucify two thieves: the one on his right +hand, and the other on his left. + +15:28. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith: And with the +wicked he was reputed. + +15:29. And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and +saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days +buildest it up again: + +15:30. Save thyself, coming down from the cross. + +15:31. In like manner also the chief priests, mocking, said with the +scribes one to another: He saved others; himself he cannot save. + +15:32. Let Christ the king of Israel come down now from the cross, that +we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him, reviled +him. + +15:33. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the +whole earth until the ninth hour. + +15:34. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, +saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My +God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me? + +15:35. And some of the standers by hearing, said: Behold he calleth +Elias. + +15:36. And one running and filling a sponge with vinegar and putting it +upon a reed, gave him to drink, saying: Stay, let us see if Elias come +to take him down. + +15:37. And Jesus, having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the +ghost. + +15:38. And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the +bottom. + +15:39. And the centurion who stood over against him, seeing that crying +out in this manner he had given up the ghost. said: Indeed this man was +the son of God. + +15:40. And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was +Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph and +Salome, + +15:41. Who also when he was in Galilee followed him and ministered to +him, and many other women that came up with him to Jerusalem. + +15:42. And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, +that is, the day before the sabbath), + +15:43. Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor, who was also himself +looking for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and +begged the body of Jesus. + +15:44. But Pilate wondered that he should be already dead. And sending +for the centurion, he asked him if he were already dead. + +15:45. And when he had understood it by the centurion, he gave the body +to Joseph. + +15:46. And Joseph, buying fine linen and taking him down, wrapped him +up in the fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of +a rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre. + +15:47. And Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he +was laid. + + + +Mark Chapter 16 + + +Christ's resurrection and ascension. + +16:1. And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother +of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint +Jesus. + +16:2. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they +come to the sepulchre, the sun being now risen. + +The sun being now risen. . .They set out before it was light, to go to +the sepulchre; but the sun was risen when they arrived there. Or, +figuratively, the sun here spoken of is the sun of justice, Christ +Jesus our Lord, who was risen before their coming. + +16:3. And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone +from the door of the sepulchre? + +16:4. And looking, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very +great. + +16:5. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on +the right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished. + +16:6. Who saith to them: Be not affrighted. you seek Jesus of Nazareth, +who was crucified. He is risen: he is not here. Behold the place where +they laid him. + +16:7. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you +into Galilee. There you shall see him, as he told you. + +16:8. But they going out, fled from the sepulchre: for a trembling and +fear had seized them. And they said nothing to any man: for they were +afraid. + +16:9. But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to +Mary Magdalen; out of whom he had cast seven devils. + +16:10. She went and told them that had been with him, who were mourning +and weeping. + +16:11. And they hearing that he was alive and had been seen by her, did +not believe. + +16:12. And after that he appeared in another shape to two of them +walking, as they were going into the country. + +16:13. And they going told it to the rest: neither did they believe +them. + +16:14. At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and +he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because +they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. + +16:15. And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the +gospel to every creature. + +16:16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that +believeth not shall he condemned. + +16:17. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they +shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. + +16:18. They shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly +thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hand upon the sick: +and they shall recover. + +16:19. And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up +into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God. + +16:20. But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working +withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed. + + + + +THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE + + + +St. Luke was a native of Antioch, the capital of Syria. He was by +profession a physician; and some ancient writers say, that he was very +skillful in painting. He was converted by St. Paul and became his +disciple and companion in his travels, and fellow-labourer in the +ministry of the Gospel. He wrote in Greek, about twenty-four years +after our Lord's Ascension. + + + +Luke Chapter 1 + + +The conception of John the Baptist, and of Christ. The visitation and +canticle of the Blessed Virgin. The birth of the Baptist and the +canticle of Zachary. + +1:1. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a +narration of the things that have been accomplished among us, + +1:2. According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the +beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word: + +1:3. It seemed good to me also, having diligently attained to all +things from the beginning, to write to thee in order, most excellent +Theophilus, + +1:4. That thou mayest know the verity of those words in which thou hast +been instructed. + +1:5. There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain +priest named Zachary, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the +daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth. + +Of the course of Abia. . .that is, of the rank of Abia, which word in +the Greek is commonly put for the employment of one day: but here for +the functions of a whole week. For, by the appointment of David, 1 Par. +24., the descendants from Aaron were divided into twenty-four families, +of which the eighth was Abia, from whom descended this Zachary, who at +this time was in the week of his priestly functions. + +1:6. And they were both just before God, walking in all the +commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame. + +1:7. And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both +were well advanced in years. + +1:8. And it came to pass, when he executed the priestly function in the +order of his course before God, + +1:9. According to the custom of the priestly office, it was his lot to +offer incense, going into the temple of the Lord. + +1:10. And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the +hour of incense. + +1:11. And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the +right side of the altar of incense. + +1:12. And Zachary seeing him, was troubled: and fear fell upon him. + +1:13. But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is +heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt +call his name John. + +1:14. And thou shalt have joy and gladness: and many shall rejoice in +his nativity. + +1:15. For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor +strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his +mother's womb. + +1:16. And he shall convert many of the children of Israel to the Lord +their God. + +1:17. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias: that +he may turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children and the +incredulous to the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a +perfect people. + +1:18. And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? For I +am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years. + +1:19. And the angel answering, said to him: I am Gabriel, who stand +before God and am sent to speak to thee and to bring thee these good +tidings. + +1:20. And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak +until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou +hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time. + +1:21. And the people were waiting for Zachary: and they wondered that +he tarried so long in the temple. + +1:22. And when he came out, he could not speak to them: and they +understood that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he made signs +to them and remained dumb. + +1:23. And it came to pass, after the days of his office were +accomplished, he departed to his own house. + +1:24. And after those days, Elizabeth his wife conceived and hid +herself five months, saying: + +1:25. Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had +regard to take away my reproach among men. + +1:26. And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into +a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, + +1:27. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house +of David: and the virgin's name was Mary. + +1:28. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, +the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. + +1:29. Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with +herself what manner of salutation this should be. + +1:30. And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found +grace with God. + +1:31. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a +son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. + +1:32. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. +And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: +and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. + +1:33. And of his kingdom there shall be no end. + +1:34. And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I +know not man? + +1:35. And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come +upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And +therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the +Son of God. + +1:36. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in +her old age: and this is the sixth month with her that is called +barren. + +1:37. Because no word shall be impossible with God. + +1:38. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me +according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. + +1:39. And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with +haste into a city of Juda. + +1:40. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. + +1:41. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of +Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the +Holy Ghost. + +1:42. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou +among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. + +1:43. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come +to me? + +1:44. For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my +ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. + +1:45. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things +shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord. + +1:46. And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. + +1:47. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. + +1:48. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold +from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. + +Shall call me blessed. . .These words are a prediction of that honour +which the church in all ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let +Protestants examine whether they are any way concerned in this +prophecy. + +1:49. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy +is his name. + +1:50. And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that +fear him. + +1:51. He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in +the conceit of their heart. + +1:52. He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the +humble. + +1:53. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath +sent empty away. + +1:54. He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy. + +1:55. As he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed for ever. + +1:56. And Mary abode with her about three months. And she returned to +her own house. + +1:57. Now Elizabeth's full time of being delivered was come: and she +brought forth a son. + +1:58. And her neighbors and kinsfolks heard that the Lord had shewed +his great mercy towards her: and they congratulated with her. + +1:59. And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to +circumcise the child: and they called him by his father's name Zachary. + +1:60. And his mother answering, said: Not so. But he shall be called +John. + +1:61. And they said to her: There is none of thy kindred that is called +by this name. + +1:62. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. + +1:63. And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his +name. And they all wondered. + +1:64. And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed: and +he spoke, blessing God. + +1:65. And fear came upon all their neighbours: and all these things +were noised abroad over all the hill country of Judea. + +1:66. And all they that had heard them laid them up in their heart, +saying: What an one, think ye, shall this child be? For the hand of the +Lord was with him. + +1:67. And Zachary his father was filled with the Holy Ghost. And he +prophesied, saying: + +1:68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and +wrought the redemption of his people. + +1:69. And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of +David his servant. + +Horn of salvation. . .That is, A powerful salvation, as Dr. Witham +translates it. For in the Scripture, by horn is generally understood +strength and power. + +1:70. As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the +beginning. + +1:71. Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us. + +1:72. To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy +testament. + +1:73. The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would +grant to us. + +1:74. That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve +him without fear: + +1:75. In holiness and justice before him, all our days. + +1:76. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for +thou shalt, go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways: + +1:77. To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission +of their sins. + +1:78. Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient +from on high hath visited us: + +The Orient. . .It is one of the titles of the Messias, the true light of +the world, and the sun of justice. + +1:79. To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of +death: to direct our feet into the way of peace. + +1:80. And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit: and was in the +deserts until the day of his manifestation to Israel. + + + +Luke Chapter 2 + + +The birth of Christ. His presentation in the temple. Simeon's prophecy. +Christ at twelve years of age, is found amongst the doctors. + +2:1. And it came to pass that in those days there went out a decree +from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. + +2:2. This enrolling was first made by Cyrinus, the governor of Syria. + +2:3. And all went to be enrolled, every one into his own city. + +2:4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, +into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he +was of the house and family of David. + +2:5. To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child. + +2:6. And it came to pass that when they were there, her days were +accomplished that she should be delivered. + +2:7. And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in +swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room +for them in the inn. + +Her firstborn. . .The meaning is, not that she had afterward any other +child; but it is a way of speech among the Hebrews, to call them also +the firstborn, who are the only children. See annotation Matt. 1. 25. + +2:8. And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping +the night watches over their flock. + +2:9. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them and the brightness +of God shone round about them: and they feared with a great fear. + +2:10. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you +good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people: + +2:11. For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, +in the city of David. + +2:12. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant +wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. + +2:13. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly +army, praising God and saying: + +2:14. Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good +will. + +2:15. And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into +heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem +and let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath +shewed to us. + +2:16. And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the +infant lying in the manger. + +2:17. And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to +them concerning this child. + +2:18. And all that heard wondered: and at those things that were told +them by the shepherds. + +2:19. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. + +2:20. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all +the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. + +2:21. And after eight days were accomplished, that the child should be +circumcised, his name was called JESUS, which was called by the angel +before he was conceived in the womb. + +2:22. And after the days of her purification, according to the law of +Moses, were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him +to the Lord: + +2:23. As it is written in the law of the Lord: Every male opening the +womb shall be called holy to the Lord: + +2:24. And to offer a sacrifice, according as it is written in the law +of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons: + +2:25. And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this +man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the +Holy Ghost was in him. + +2:26. And he had received an answer from the Holy Ghost, that he should +not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord. + +2:27. And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when his parents +brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of +the law, + +2:28. He also took him into his arms and blessed God and said + +2:29. Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word +in peace: + +2:30. Because my eyes have seen thy salvation, + +2:31. Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples: + +2:32. A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy +people Israel. + +2:33. And his father and mother were wondering at those things which +were spoken concerning him. + +2:34. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this +child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel +and for a sign which shall be contradicted. + +For the fall, etc. . .Christ came for the salvation of all men; but here +Simeon prophesies what would come to pass, that many through their own +wilful blindness and obstinacy would not believe in Christ, nor receive +his doctrine, which therefore would be ruin to them: but to others a +resurrection, by their believing in him, and obeying his commandments. + +2:35. And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts +thoughts may be revealed. + +2:36. And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of +the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her +husband seven years from her virginity. + +2:37. And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed +not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day. + +2:38. Now she, at the same hour, coming in, confessed to the Lord: and +spoke of him to all that looked for the redemption of Israel. + +2:39. And after they had performed all things according to the law of +the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their city Nazareth. + +2:40. And the child grew and waxed strong, full of wisdom: and the +grace of God was in him. + +2:41. And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day +of the pasch. + +2:42. And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, +according to the custom of the feast, + +2:43. And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child +Jesus remained in Jerusalem. And his parents knew it not. + +2:44. And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day's +journey and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance. + +2:45. And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him. + +2:46. And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in +the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and +asking them questions. + +2:47. And all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom and his +answers. + +2:48. And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, +why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee +sorrowing. + +2:49. And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not +know that I must be about my father's business? + +2:50. And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them. + +2:51. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject +to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart. + +2:52. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men. + + + +Luke Chapter 3 + + +John's mission and preaching. Christ is baptized by him. + +3:1. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius +Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, +and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of +Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina: + +3:2. Under the high priests Anna and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was +made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. + +3:3. And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the +baptism of penance for the remission of sins. + +3:4. As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the +prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of +the Lord, make straight his paths. + +3:5. Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be +brought low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways +plain. + +3:6. And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. + +3:7. He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized +by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the +wrath to come? + +3:8. Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin +to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is +able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham. + +3:9. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree +therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast +into the fire. + +3:10. And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do? + +3:11. And he answering, said to them: He that hath two coats, let him +give to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like +manner. + +3:12. And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him: +Master, what shall we do? + +3:13. But he said to them: Do nothing more than that which is appointed +you. + +3:14. And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? +And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; +and be content with your pay. + +3:15. And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their +hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ: + +3:16. John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water: +but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I +am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and +with fire; + +3:17. Whose fan is in his hand: and he will purge his floor and will +gather the wheat into his barn: but the chaff he will burn with +unquenchable fire. + +3:18. And many other things exhorting did he preach to the people. + +3:19. But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, +his brother's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done: + +3:20. He added this also above all and shut up John in prison. + +3:21. Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that +Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened. + +3:22. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape, as a dove, upon +him. And a voice came from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son. In thee I +am well pleased. + +3:23. And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: +being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was +of Mathat, + +Who was of Heli. . .St. Joseph, who by nature was the son of Jacob, (St. +Matt. 1. 16,) in the account of the law, was son of Heli. For Heli and +Jacob were brothers, by the same mother; and Heli, who was the elder, +dying without issue, Jacob, as the law directed, married his widow: in +consequence of such marriage, his son Joseph was reputed in the law the +son of Heli. + +3:24. Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi. who was of Janne, who was of +Joseph, + +3:25. Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was +of Hesli, who was of Nagge, + +3:26. Who was of Mahath, who was of Mathathias, who was of Semei, who +was of Joseph, who was of Juda, + +3:27. Who was of Joanna, who was of Reza, who was of Zorobabel, who was +of Salathiel, who was of Neri, + +3:28. Who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who was of Cosan, who was of +Helmadan, who was of Her, + +3:29. Who was of Jesus, who was of Eliezer, who was of Jorim, who was +of Mathat, who was of Levi, + +3:30. Who was of Simeon, who was of Judas, who was of Joseph, who was +of Jona, who was of Eliakim, + +3:31. Who was of Melea, who was of Menna, who was of Mathatha, who was +of Nathan, who was of David, + +3:32. Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who was of Booz, who was of +Salmon, who was of Naasson, + +3:33. Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Esron, who was +of Phares, who was of Judas, + +3:34. Who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was +of Thare, who was of Nachor, + +3:35. Who was of Sarug, who was of Ragau, who was of Phaleg, who was of +Heber, who was of Sale, + +3:36. Who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Sem, who was +Of Noe, who was of Lamech, + +3:37. Who was of Mathusale, who was of Henoch, who was of Jared, who +was of Malaleel, who was of Cainan, + +3:38. Who was of Henos, who was of Seth, who was of Adam, who was of +God. + + + +Luke Chapter 4 + + +Christ's fasting and temptation. He is persecuted in Nazareth. His +miracles in Capharnaum. + +4:1. And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan +and was led the by the spirit into the desert, + +4:2. For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he +ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. + +4:3. And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this +stone that it be made bread. + +4:4. And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread +alone, but by every word of God. + +4:5. And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the +kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. + +4:6. And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the +glory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give +them. + +4:7. If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine. + +4:8. And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore +the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. + +4:9. And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the +temple and said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from +hence. + +4:10. For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee +that they keep thee. + +4:11. And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps +thou dash thy foot against a stone. + +4:12. And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not +tempt the Lord thy God. + +4:13. And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him +for a time. + +4:14. And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into Galilee: and +the fame of him went out through the whole country. + +4:15. And he taught in their synagogues and was magnified by all. + +4:16. And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went +into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he +rose up to read. + +4:17. And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as +he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written: + +4:18. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me +to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite +of heart, + +4:19. To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to +set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of +the Lord and the day of reward. + +4:20. And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister +and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. + +4:21. And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture +in your ears. + +4:22. And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of +grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son +of Joseph? + +4:23. And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this +similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard +done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country. + +4:24. And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his +own country. + +4:25. In truth I say to You, there were many widows in the days of +Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, +when there was a great famine throughout all the earth. + +4:26. And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a +widow woman. + +4:27. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the +prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. + +4:28. And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled +with anger. + +4:29. And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought +him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they +might cast him down headlong. + +4:30. But he passing through the midst of them, went his way. + +4:31. And he went down into Capharnaum, a city of Galilee: and there he +taught them on the sabbath days. + +4:32. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his speech was with +power. + +4:33. And in the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean devil: +and he cried out with a loud voice, + +4:34. Saying: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus of +Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the +holy one of God. + +4:35. And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace and go out of him. +And when the devil had thrown him into the midst, he went out of him +and hurt him not at all. + +4:36. And there came fear upon all; and they talked among themselves, +saying: What word is this, for with authority and power he commandeth +the unclean spirits, and they go out? + +4:37. And the fame of him was published into every place of the +country. + +4:38. And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's +house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever: and they +besought him for her. + +4:39. And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. +And immediately rising, she ministered to them. + +4:40. And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers +diseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of +them, healed them. + +4:41. And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art +the son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak; for +they knew that he was Christ. + +4:42. And when it was day, going out he went into a desert place: and +the multitudes sought him, and came unto him. And they stayed him that +should not depart from them. + +4:43. To whom he said: To other cities also I must preach the kingdom +of God: for therefore am I sent. + +4:44. And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee. + + + +Luke Chapter 5 + + +The miraculous draught of fishes. The cure of the leper and of the +paralytic. The call of Matthew. + +5:1. And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to +hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth, + +5:2. And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were +gone out of them and were washing their nets. + +5:3. And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him +to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the +multitudes out of the ship. + +5:4. Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into +the deep and let down your nets for a draught. + +5:5. And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the +night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net. + +5:6. And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude +of fishes: and their net broke. + +5:7. And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, +that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the +ships, so that they were almost sinking. + +5:8. Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: +Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. + +5:9. For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the +draught of the fishes which they had taken. + +5:10. And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were +Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth +thou shalt catch men. + +5:11. And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they +followed him. + +5:12. And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man +full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him +saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. + +5:13. And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be +thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. + +5:14. And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew +thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses +commanded, for a testimony to them. + +5:15. But the fame of him went abroad the more: and great multitudes +came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities. + +5:16. And he retired into the desert; and prayed. + +5:17. And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that +there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were +come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the +power of the Lord was to heal them. + +5:18. And behold, men brought in a bed a man who had the palsy: and +they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him. + +5:19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, +because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down +through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus. + +5:20. Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven +thee. + +5:21. And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this +who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? + +5:22. And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: +What is it you think in your hearts? + +5:23. Which is easier to say: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say: +Arise and walk? + +5:24. But that you may know that the Son of man hath the power on earth +to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say to thee to: +Arise, take up thy bed and go into thy house. + +5:25. And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on +which he lay: and he went away to his own house, glorifying God. + +5:26. And all were astonished: and they glorified God. And they were +filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to-day. + +5:27. And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named +Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him: Follow me. + +5:28. And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him. + +5:29. And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a +great company of publicans and of others that were at table with them. + +5:30. But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: +Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? + +5:31. And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not +the physician: but they that are sick. + +5:32. I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance. + +5:33. And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and +make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but +thine eat and drink? + +5:34. To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast +whilst the bridegroom is with them? + +5:35. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away +from them: then shall they fast in those days. + +5:36. And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a +piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth +the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old. + +5:37. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new +wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles +will be lost. + +5:38. But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are +preserved. + +5:39. And no man drinking old hath presently a mind to new: for he +saith: The old is better. + + + +Luke Chapter 6 + + +Christ excuses his disciples. He cures upon the sabbath day, chooses +the twelve and makes a sermon to them. + +6:1. And it came to pass on the second first sabbath that, as he went +through the corn fields, his disciples plucked the ears and did eat, +rubbing them in their hands. + +The second first sabbath. . .Some understand this of the sabbath of +Pentecost, which was the second in course among the great feasts: +others, of a sabbath day that immediately followed any solemn feast. + +6:2. And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is +not lawful on the sabbath days? + +6:3. And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this, +what David did, when himself was hungry and they that were with him: + +6:4. How he went into the house of God and took and ate the bread of +proposition and gave to them that were with him, which is not lawful to +eat but only for the priests? + +6:5. And he said to them: The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. + +6:6. And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he entered into +the synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was +withered. + +6:7. And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the +sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him. + +6:8. But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the +withered hand: Arise and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood +forth. + +6:9. Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath +days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy? + +6:10. And looking round about on them all, he said to the man: Stretch +forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth. And his hand was restored. + +6:11. And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with +another, what they might do to Jesus. + +6:12. And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a +mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God. + +6:13. And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples: and he +chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles): + +6:14. Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and +John, Philip and Bartholomew, + +6:15. Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is +called Zelotes, + +6:16. And Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the +traitor. + +6:17. And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place: and the +company of his disciples and a very great multitude of people from all +Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast, both of Tyre and Sidon, + +6:18. Who were come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And +they that were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. + +6:19. And all the multitude sought to touch him: for virtue went out +from him and healed all. + +6:20. And he, lifting up his eyes on his disciples, said: Blessed are +ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. + +6:21. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed +are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh. + +6:22. Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall +separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for +the Son of man's sake. + +6:23. Be glad in that day and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great +in heaven, For according to these things did their fathers to the +prophets. + +6:24. But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation. + +6:25. Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that +now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep. + +6:26. Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these +things did their fathers to the false prophets. + +6:27. But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them +that hate you. + +6:28. Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you. + +6:29. And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the +other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take +thy coat also. + +6:30. Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away +thy goods, ask them not again. + +6:31. And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them +in like manner. + +6:32. And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For +sinners also love those that love them. + +6:33. And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to +you? For sinners also do this. + +6:34. And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks +are to you? For sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much. + +6:35. But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing +thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of +the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil. + +6:36. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. + +6:37. Judge not: and you shall not be judged. Condemn not: and you +shall not be condemned. Forgive: and you shall be forgiven. + +6:38. Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down +and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. +For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be +measured to you again. + +6:39. And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the +blind? Do they not both fall into the ditch? + +6:40. The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be +perfect, if he be as his master. + +6:41. And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye: but the beam +that is in thy own eye thou considerest not? + +6:42. Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the +mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own +eye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye: and then shalt +thou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother's eye. + +6:43. For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an +evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. + +6:44. For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs +from thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape. + +6:45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth +that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth +forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the +mouth speaketh. + +6:46. And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I +say? + +6:47. Every one that cometh to me and heareth my words and doth them, I +will shew you to whom he is like. + +6:48. He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep and laid +the foundation upon a rock. And when a flood came, the stream beat +vehemently upon that house: and it could not shake it: for it was +founded on a rock. + +6:49. But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his +house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream +beat vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house +was great. + + + +Luke Chapter 7 + + +Christ heals the centurion's servant. He raises the widow's son to +life, answers the messengers sent by John and absolves the penitent +sinner. + +7:1. And when he had finished all his words in the hearing of the +people, he entered into Capharnaum. + +7:2. And the servant of a certain centurion who was dear to him, being +sick, was ready to die. + +7:3. And when he had heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the ancients of +the Jews, desiring him to come and heal his servant. + +7:4. And when they came to Jesus, they besought him earnestly, saying +to him: He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him. + +7:5. For he loveth our nation: and he hath built us a synagogue. + +7:6. And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the +house, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not +thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof. + +7:7. For which cause neither did I think myself worthy to come to thee: +but say the word, and my servant shall be healed. + +7:8. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me +soldiers: and I say to one, Go, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and +he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it. + +7:9. Which Jesus hearing, marvelled: and turning about to the multitude +that followed him, he said: Amen I say to you, I have not found so +great faith, not even in Israel. + +7:10. And they who were sent, being returned to the house, found the +servant whole who had been sick. + +7:11. And it came to pass afterwards that he went into a city that is +called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great +multitude. + +7:12. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man +was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a +great multitude of the city was with her. + +7:13. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, +he said to her: Weep not. + +7:14. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it +stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. + +7:15. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him +to his mother. + +7:16. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God +saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his +people. + +7:17. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea and +throughout all the country round about. + +7:18. And John's disciples told him of all these things. + +7:19. And John called to him two of his disciples and sent them to +Jesus, saying: Art thou he that art to come? Or look we for another? + +7:20. And when the men were come unto him, they said: John the Baptist +hath sent us to thee, saying: Art thou he that art to come? Or look we +for another? + +7:21. (And in that same hour, he cured many of their diseases and hurts +and evil spirits: and to many that were blind he gave sight.) + +7:22. And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you +have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made +clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is +preached. + +7:23. And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me. + +7:24. And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak +to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to +see? A reed shaken with the wind? + +7:25. But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? +Behold they that are in costly apparel and live delicately are in the +houses of kings. + +7:26. But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and +more than a prophet. + +7:27. This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before +thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee. + +7:28. For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of men, there is +not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser +in the kingdom of God is greater than he. + +7:29. And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, +being baptized with John's baptism. + +Justified God. . .that is, praised the justice of God, feared and +worshipped God, as just and merciful. + +7:30. But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God +against themselves, being not baptized by him. + +7:31. And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this +generation? And to what are they like? + +7:32. They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking +one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not +danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept. + +7:33. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. +And you say: He hath a devil. + +7:34. The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a +man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and +sinners. + +7:35. And wisdom is justified by all her children. + +7:36. And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went +into the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat. + +One of the Pharisees: that is, Simon. + +7:37. And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew +that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box +of ointment. + +7:38. And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with +tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and +anointed them with the ointment. + +7:39. And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within +himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely +who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a +sinner. + +7:40. And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say +to thee. But he said: Master, say it. + +7:41. A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred +pence and the other fifty. + +7:42. And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. +Which therefore of the two loveth him most? + +7:43. Simon answering, said: I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. +And he said to him: Thou hast judged rightly. + +7:44. And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this +woman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet. +But she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped +them. + +7:45. Thou gavest me no kiss. But she, since she cane in, hath not +ceased to kiss my feet. + +7:46. My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment +hath anointed my feet. + +7:47. Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she +hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less. + +Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. . .In the +scripture an effect sometimes seems attributed to one only cause, when +there are divers other concurring dispositions; for the sins of this +woman, in this verse, are said to be forgiven, because she loved much: +but (ver. 50) Christ tells her, Thy faith hath made thee safe. Hence in +a true conversion are joined faith, hope, love, sorrow for sin, and +other pious dispositions. + +7:48. And he said to her: Thy sins are forgiven thee. + +7:49. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within +themselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also? + +7:50. And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath made thee safe. Go in +peace. + + + +Luke Chapter 8 + + +The parable of the seed. Christ stills the storm at sea, casts out the +legion, heals the issue of blood and raises the daughter of Jairus to +life. + +8:1. And it came to pass afterwards he travelled through the cities and +towns, preaching and evangelizing the kingdom of God: and the twelve +with him: + +8:2. And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and +infirmities: Mary who is called Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were +gone forth, + +8:3. And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susanna and +many others who ministered unto him of their substance. + +8:4. And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened +out of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude. + +8:5. The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by +the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air +devoured it. + +8:6. And other some fell upon a rock. And as soon as it was sprung up, +it withered away, because it had no moisture. + +8:7. And other some fell among thorns. And the thorns growing up with +it, choked it. + +8:8. And other some fell upon good ground and, being sprung up, yielded +fruit a hundredfold. Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath +ears to hear, let him hear. + +8:9. And his disciples asked him what this parable might be. + +8:10. To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the +kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not +see and hearing may not understand. + +Seeing they may not see. . .See the annotation, Mark 4. 12. + +8:11. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. + +8:12. And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil +cometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they +should be saved. + +8:13. Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the +word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while +and in time of temptation they fall away. + +8:14. And that which fell among thorns are they who have heard and, +going their way, are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of +this life and yield no fruit. + +8:15. But that on the good ground are they who in a good and perfect +heart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience. + +8:16. Now no man lighting a candle covereth it with a vessel or putteth +it under a bed: but setteth it upon a candlestick, that they who come +in may see the light. + +8:17. For there is not any thing secret that shall not be made +manifest, nor hidden that shall not be known and come abroad. + +8:18. Take heed therefore how you hear. For whosoever hath, to him +shall be given: and whosoever hath not, that also which he thinketh he +hath shall be taken away from him. + +8:19. And his mother and brethren came unto him: and they could not +come at him for the crowd. + +8:20. And it was told him: Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, +desiring to see thee. + +8:21. Who answering, said to them: My mother and my brethren are they +who hear the word of God and do it. + +8:22. And it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a little +ship with his disciples. And he said to them: Let us go over to the +other side of the lake. And they launched forth. + +8:23. And when they were sailing, he slept. And there came down a storm +of wind upon the lake: and they were filled and were in danger. + +8:24. And they came and awaked him, saying: Master, we perish. But he +arising, rebuked the wind and the rage of the water. And it ceased: and +there was a calm. + +8:25. And he said to them: Where is your faith? Who being afraid, +wondered, saying one to another: Who is this (think you), that he +commandeth both the winds and the sea: and they obey him? + +8:26. And they sailed to the country of the Gerasens, which is over +against Galilee. + +8:27. And when he was come forth to the land, there met him a certain +man who had a devil now a very long time. And he wore no clothes: +neither did he abide in a house, but in the sepulchres. + +8:28. And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him. And crying out +with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of +the most high God? I beseech thee, do not torment me. + +8:29. For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For +many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in +fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the +deserts. + +8:30. And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: +Legion. Because many devils were entered into him. + +8:31. And they besought him that he would not command them to go into +the abyss. + +8:32. And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: +and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And +he suffered them. + +8:33. The devils therefore went out of the man and entered into the +swine. And the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and +were stifled. + +8:34. Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away and told +it in the city and in the villages. + +8:35. And they went out to see what was done. And they came to Jesus +and found the man out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at his +feet, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. + +8:36. And they also that had seen told them how he had been healed from +the legion. + +8:37. And all the multitude of the country of the Gerasens besought him +to depart from them: for they were taken with great fear. And he, going +up into the ship, returned back again. + +8:38. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him +that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying: + +8:39. Return to thy house and tell how great things God hath done to +thee. And he went through the whole city, publishing how great things +Jesus had done to him. + +8:40. And it came to pass that when Jesus was returned, the multitude +received him: for they were all waiting for him. + +8:41. And behold there came a man whose name was Jairus: and he was a +ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at the feet of Jesus, +beseeching him that he would come into his house: + +8:42. For he had an only daughter, almost twelve years old, and she was +dying. And it happened as he went that he was thronged by the +multitudes. + +8:43. And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve +years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians and could not +be healed by any. + +8:44. She came behind him and touched the hem of his garment: and +immediately the issue of her blood stopped. + +8:45. And Jesus said: Who is it that touched me? And all denying, Peter +and they that were with him said: Master, the multitudes throng and +press thee; and dost thou say, who touched me? + +8:46. And Jesus said: Somebody hath touched me; for I know that virtue +is gone out from me. + +8:47. And the woman seeing that she was not hid, came trembling and +fell down before his feet and declared before all the people for what +cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed. + +8:48. But he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go +thy way in peace. + +8:49. As he was yet speaking, there cometh one to the ruler of the +synagogue, saying to him: Thy daughter is dead: trouble him not. + +8:50. And Jesus hearing this word, answered the father of the maid: +Fear not. Believe only: and she shall be safe. + +8:51. And when he was come to the house, he suffered not any man to go +in with him, but Peter and James and John, and the father and mother of +the maiden. + +8:52. And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The +maid is not dead, but sleepeth. + +8:53. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. + +8:54. But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise. + +8:55. And her spirit returned: and she arose immediately. And he bid +them give her to eat. + +8:56. And her parents were astonished, whom he charged to tell no man +what was done. + + + +Luke Chapter 9 + + +Christ sends forth his apostles, feeds five thousand with five loaves, +is transfigured and casts out a devil. + +9:1. Then calling together the twelve apostles, he gave them power and +authority over all devils and to cure diseases. + +9:2. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the +sick. + +9:3. And he said to them: Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, +nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats. + +9:4. And whatsoever house you shall enter into, abide there and depart +not from thence. + +9:5. And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, +shake off even the dust of your feet, for a testimony against them. + +9:6. And going out, they went about through the towns, preaching the +gospel and healing every where. + +9:7. Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all things that were done by +him. And he was in a doubt, because it was said + +9:8. By some that John was risen from the dead: but by other some, that +Elias had appeared: and by others, that one of the old prophets was +risen again. + +9:9. And Herod said: John I have beheaded. But who is this of whom I +hear such things? And he sought to see him. + +9:10. And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all they had +done. And taking them, he went aside into a desert place, apart, which +belongeth to Bethsaida. + +9:11. Which when the people knew, they followed him: and he received +them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and healed them who had +need of healing. + +9:12. Now the day began to decline. And the twelve came and said to +him: Send away the multitude, that, going into the towns and villages +round about, they may lodge and get victuals; for we are here in a +desert place. + +9:13. But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We +have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should +go and buy food for all this multitude. + +9:14. Now there were about five thousand men. And he said to his +disciples: Make them sit down by fifties in a company. + +9:15. And they did so and made them all sit down. + +9:16. And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to +heaven and blessed them: and he broke and distributed to his disciples, +to set before the multitude. + +9:17. And they did all eat and were filled. And there were taken up of +fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets. + +9:18. And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples also +were with him: and he asked them, saying: Whom do the people say that I +am? + +9:19. But they answered and said: John the Baptist; but some say Elias: +and others say that one of the former prophets is risen again. + +9:20. And he said to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter +answering, said: The Christ of God. + +9:21. But he strictly charging them, commanded they should tell this to +no man. + +9:22. Saying: The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by +the ancients and chief priests and scribes and be killed and the third +day rise again. + +9:23. And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny +himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. + +9:24. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: for he that shall +lose his life for my sake shall save it. + +9:25. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose +himself and cast away himself? + +9:26. For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him the +Son of man shall be ashamed, when he shall come in his majesty and that +of his Father and of the holy angels. + +9:27. But I tell you of a truth: There are some standing here that +shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God. + +9:28. And it came to pass, about eight days after these words, that he +took Peter and James and John and went up into a mountain to pray. + +9:29. And whilst he prayed, the shape of his countenance was altered +and his raiment became white and glittering. + +9:30. And behold two men were talking with him. And they were Moses and +Elias, + +9:31. Appearing in majesty. And they spoke of his decease that he +should accomplish in Jerusalem. + +9:32. But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep. And +waking, they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him. + +9:33. And it came to pass that, as they were departing from him, Peter +saith to Jesus: Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make +three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses; and one for Elias: +not knowing what he said. + +9:34. And as he spoke these things, there came a cloud and overshadowed +them. And they were afraid when they entered into the cloud. + +9:35. And a voice came out of the cloud; saying: This is my beloved +son. Hear him. + +9:36. And whilst the voice was uttered Jesus was found alone. And they +held their peace and told no man in those days any of these things +which they had seen. + +9:37. And it came to pass the day following, when they came down from +the mountain, there met him a great multitude. + +9:38. And behold a man among the crowd cried out, saying: Master, I +beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only one. + +9:39. And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he +throweth him down and teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising +him, he hardly departeth from him. + +9:40. And I desired thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not. + +9:41. And Jesus, answering:, said: O faithless and perverse generation, +how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son. + +9:42. And as he was coming to him, the devil threw him down and tore +him. + +9:43. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and cured the boy and +restored him to his father. + +9:44. And all were astonished at the mighty power of God. But while all +wondered at all the things he did, he said to his disciples: Lay you up +in your hearts these words, for it shall come to pass that the Son of +man shall be delivered into the hands of men. + +9:45. But they understood not this word: and it was hid from them, so +that they perceived it not. And they were afraid to ask him concerning +this word. + +9:46. And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be +greater. + +9:47. But Jesus seeing the thoughts of their hearts, took a child and +set him by him, + +9:48. And said to them: Whosoever shall receive this child in my name +receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent +me. For he that is the lesser among you all, he is the greater. + +9:49. And John, answering, said: Master, we saw a certain man casting +out devils in thy name: and we forbade him, because he followeth not +with us. + +9:50. And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not: for he that is not against +you is for you. + +9:51. And it came to pass, when the days of his assumption were +accomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. + +9:52. And he sent messengers before his face: and going, they entered +into a city of the Samaritans, to prepare for him. + +9:53. And they received him not, because his face was of one going to +Jerusalem. + +9:54. And when his disciples, James and John, had seen this, they said: +Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and +consume them? + +9:55. And turning, he rebuked them, saying: you know not of what spirit +you are. + +9:56. The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they +went into another town. + +9:57. And it came to pass, as they walked in the way, that a certain +man said to him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. + +9:58. Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air +nests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. + +9:59. But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me +first to go and to bury my father. + +9:60. And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou +and preach the kingdom of God. + +9:61. And another said: I will follow thee, Lord; but let me first take +my leave of them that are at my house. + +9:62. Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough and +looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. + + + +Luke Chapter 10 + + +Christ sends forth and instructs his seventy-two disciples. The good +Samaritan. + +10:1. And after these things, the Lord appointed also other +seventy-two. And he sent them two and two before his face into every +city and place whither he himself was to come. + +10:2. And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the +labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he +send labourers into his harvest. + +10:3. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. + +10:4. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by +the way. + +10:5. Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house. + +10:6. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: +but if not, it shall return to you. + +10:7. And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as +they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from +house to house. + +10:8. And into what city soever you enter, and they receive you, eat +such things as are set before you. + +10:9. And heal the sick that are therein and say to them: The kingdom +of God is come nigh unto you. + +10:10. But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not, +going forth into the streets thereof, say: + +10:11. Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off +against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand. + +10:12. I say to you, it shall be more tolerable at that day for Sodom +than for that city. + +10:13. Woe to thee, Corozain! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! For if in Tyre +and Sidon had been wrought the mighty works that have been wrought in +you, they would have done penance long ago, sitting in sackcloth and +ashes. + +10:14. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the +judgment than for you. + +10:15. And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt +be thrust down to hell. + +10:16. He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you +despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. + +10:17. And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: Lord, the devils +also are subject to us in thy name. + +10:18. And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from +heaven. + +10:19. Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and +scorpions and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt +you. + +10:20. But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: +but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven. + +10:21. In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I +confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast +hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to +little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight. + +He rejoiced in the Holy Ghost. . .That is, according to his humanity he +rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and gave thanks to his eternal Father. + +10:22. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth +who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and +to whom the Son will reveal him. + +10:23. And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that +see the things which you see. + +10:24. For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to +see the things that you see and have not seen them; and to hear the +things that you hear and have not heard them. + +10:25. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, +Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? + +10:26. But he said to him: What is written in the law? How readest +thou? + +10:27. He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy +whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with +all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. + +10:28. And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou +shalt live. + +10:29. But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my +neighbour? + +10:30. And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from +Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who also stripped him and +having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead. + +10:31. And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: +and seeing him, passed by. + +10:32. In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw +him, passed by. + +10:33. But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near him: +and seeing him, was moved with compassion: + +10:34. And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and +wine: and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn and +took care of him. + +10:35. And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host and +said: Take care of him; and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, +I, at my return, will repay thee. + +10:36. Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbour to him that +fell among the robbers? + +10:37. But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: +Go, and do thou in like manner. + +10:38. Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a +certain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her +house. + +10:39. And she had a sister called Mary. who, sitting also at the +Lord's feet, heard his word. + +10:40. But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: +Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? +Speak to her therefore, that she help me. + +10:41. And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art +careful and art troubled about many things: + +10:42. But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, +which shall not be taken away from her. + + + +Luke Chapter 11 + + +Christ teaches his disciples to pray. He casts out a dumb devil, +confutes the Pharisees, and pronounces woes against them for their +hypocrisy. + +11:1. And it came to pass that as he was in a certain place praying, +when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to +pray, as John also taught his disciples. + +11:2. And he said to them: When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy +name. Thy kingdom come. + +11:3. Give us this day our daily bread. + +11:4. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is +indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation. + +11:5. And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend and shall +go to him at midnight and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three +loaves, + +11:6. Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me and I have +not what to set before him. + +11:7. And he from within should answer and say: Trouble me not; the +door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and +give thee. + +11:8. Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will +not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his +importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. + +11:9. And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you +shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. + +11:10. For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh +findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened: + +11:11. And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a +stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? + +11:12. Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? + +11:13. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your +children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good +Spirit to them that ask him? + +11:14. And he was casting out a devil: and the same was dumb. And when +he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes, were in +admiration at it. + +11:15. But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the +prince of devils. + +11:16. And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. + +11:17. But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom +divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and house upon +house shall fall. + +11:18. And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his +kingdom stand? Because you say that through Beelzebub I cast out +devils. + +11:19. Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do your children +cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges. + +11:20. But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, doubtless the +kingdom of God is come upon you. + +11:21. When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in +peace which he possesseth. + +11:22. But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he +will take away all his armour wherein he trusted and will distribute +his spoils. + +11:23. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not +with me scattereth. + +11:24. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through +places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will +return into my house whence I came out. + +11:25. And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. + +11:26. Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more +wicked than himself: and entering in they dwell there. And the last +state of that man becomes worse than the first. + +11:27. And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman +from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb +that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck. + +11:28. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of +God and keep it. + +11:29. And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This +generation is a wicked generation. It asketh a sign: and a sign shall +not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. + +11:30. For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of +man also be to this generation. + +11:31. The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men +of this generation and shall condemn them: because she came from the +ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold more than +Solomon here. + +11:32. The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this +generation and shall condemn it; Because they did penance at the +preaching of Jonas. And behold more than Jonas here. + +11:33. No man lighteth a candle and putteth it in a hidden place, nor +under a bushel: but upon a candlestick, that they that come in may see +the light. + +11:34. The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy +whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be +darksome. + +11:35. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not +darkness. + +11:36. If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness: +the whole shall be lightsome and, as a bright lamp, shall enlighten +thee. + +11:37. And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him that he +would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat. + +11:38. And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he +was not washed before dinner. + +11:39. And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the +outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of +rapine and iniquity. + +11:40. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also +that which is within? + +11:41. But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things +are clean unto you. + +11:42. But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and +every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these +things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. + +11:43. Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in +the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace. + +11:44. Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and +men that walk over are not aware. + +11:45. And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in +saying these things, thou reproachest us also. + +11:46. But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with +burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs +with one of your fingers. + +Woe to you lawyers. . .He speaks of the doctors of the law of Moses, +commonly called the scribes. + +11:47. Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your +fathers killed them. + +Woe to you who build, etc. . .Not that the building of the monuments of +the prophets was in itself blameworthy, but only the intention of these +unhappy men, who made use of this outward shew of religion and piety, +as a means to carry on their wicked designs against the prince of +prophets. + +11:48. Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your +fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres. + +11:49. For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them +prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute. + +11:50. That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the +foundation of the world may be required of this generation, + +11:51. From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was +slain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be +required of this generation. + +11:52. Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of +knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were +entering in, you have hindered. + +11:53. And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the +lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many +things, + +11:54. Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his +mouth, that they might accuse him. + + + +Luke Chapter 12 + + +Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and +covetousness. He admonishes all to watch. + +12:1. And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one +upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven +of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. + +12:2. For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor +hidden that shall not be known. + +12:3. For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be +published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in +the chambers shall be preached on the housetops. + +12:4. And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the +body and after that have no more that they can do. + +12:5. But I will shew you whom you shall fear: Fear ye him who, after +he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you: Fear +him. + +12:6. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them +is forgotten before God? + +12:7. Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not +therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows. + +12:8. And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him +shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. + +12:9. But he that shall deny me before men shall be denied before the +angels of God. + +12:10. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall +be forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy +Ghost, it shall not be forgiven. + +12:11. And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to +magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, +or what you shall say. + +12:12. For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you +must say. + +12:13. And one of the multitude said to him: Master, speak to my +brother that he divide the inheritance with me. + +12:14. But he said to him: Man, who hath appointed me judge or divider +over you? + +12:15. And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: +for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he +possesseth. + +12:16. And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain +rich man brought forth plenty of fruits. + +12:17. And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because +I have no room where to bestow my fruits? + +12:18. And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will +build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to +me and my goods. + +12:19. And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up +for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. + +12:20. But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy +soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? + +12:21. So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich +towards God. + +12:22. And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not +solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what +you shall put on. + +12:23. The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the +raiment. + +12:24. Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, +neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much +are you more valuable than they? + +12:25. And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one +cubit? + +12:26. If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are +you solicitous for the rest? + +12:27. Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do +they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was +clothed like one of these. + +12:28. Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in +the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye +of little faith? + +12:29. And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be +not lifted up on high. + +12:30. For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your +Father knoweth that you have need of these things. + +12:31. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all +these things shall be added unto you. + +12:32. Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give +you a kingdom. + +12:33. Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags +which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no +thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. + +12:34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. + +12:35. Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. + +12:36. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he +shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they +may open to him immediately. + +12:37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall +find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make +them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them. + +12:38. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third +watch and find them so, blessed are those servants. + +12:39. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour +the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his +house to be broken open. + +12:40. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son +of man will come. + +12:41. And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, +or likewise to all? + +12:42. And the Lord said: Who thinkest thou is the faithful and wise +steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their +measure of wheat in due season? + +12:43. Blessed is that servant whom, when his lord shall come, he shall +find so doing. + +12:44. Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he +possesseth. + +12:45. But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a +coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, +and to eat and to drink and be drunk: + +12:46. The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth +not, and at the hour that he knoweth not: and shall separate him and +shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers. + +12:47. And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not +himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many +stripes. + +12:48. But he that knew not and did things worthy of stripes shall be +beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much +shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they +will demand the more. + +12:49. I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that +it be kindled? + +12:50. And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I +straitened until it be accomplished? + +12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; +but separation. + +12:52. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: +three against two, and two against three. + +12:53. The father shall be divided against the son and the son against +his father: the mother against the daughter and the daughter against +her mother: the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law and the +daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. + +12:54. And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising +from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming. And so it +happeneth. + +12:55. And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will heat. +And it cometh to pass. + +12:56. You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven +and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time? + +12:57. And why, even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is +just? + +12:58. And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst +thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps +he draw thee to he judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, +and the exacter cast thee into prison. + +12:59. I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the +very last mite. + + + +Luke Chapter 13 + + +The necessity of penance. The barren fig tree. The cure of the infirm +woman. The journey to Jerusalem. + +13:1. And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of +the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. + +13:2. And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans +were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such +things? + +13:3. No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all +likewise perish. + +13:4. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe and slew +them: think you that they also were debtors above all the men that +dwelt in Jerusalem? + +13:5. No, I say to you: but except you do penance, you shall all +likewise perish. + +13:6. He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted +in his vineyard: and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. + +13:7. And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these +three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut +it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground? + +13:8. But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, +until I dig about it and dung it. + +13:9. And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou +shalt cut it down. + +13:10. And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath. + +13:11. And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity +eighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look +upwards at all. + +13:12. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him and said to her: +Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity. + +13:13. And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made +straight and glorified God. + +13:14. And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed +on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are +wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and +not on the sabbath day. + +13:15. And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every +one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger +and lead them to water? + +13:16. And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, +lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? + +13:17. And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: +and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously +done by him. + +13:18. He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and +whereunto shall I resemble it? + +13:19. It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast +into his garden: and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of +the air lodged in the branches thereof. + +13:20. And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God +to be like? + +13:21. It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three +measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. + +13:22. And he went through the cities and towns teaching and making his +journey to Jerusalem. + +13:23. And a certain man said to him: Lord, are they few that are +saved? But he said to them: + +13:24. Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, +shall seek to enter and shall not be able. + +Shall seek, etc. . .Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking +sufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to +it. + +13:25. But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut +the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door, +saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know +you not, whence you are. + +13:26. Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy +presence: and thou hast taught in our streets. + +13:27. And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart +from me, all ye workers of iniquity. + +13:28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see +Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of +God: and you yourselves thrust out. + +13:29. And there shall come from the east and the west and the north +and the south: and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. + +13:30. And behold, they are last that shall be first: and they are +first that shall be last. + +13:31. The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: +Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee. + +13:32. And he said to them: Go and tell that fox: Behold, I cast out +devils and do cures, to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am +consummated. + +13:33. Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day +following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of +Jerusalem. + +13:34. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest +them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy +children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest +not? + +13:35. Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to +you that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say: +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. + + + +Luke Chapter 14 + + +Christ heals the dropsical man. The parable of the supper. The +necessity of renouncing all to follow Christ. + +14:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the +Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him. + +14:2. And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the +dropsy. + +14:3. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: +Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? + +14:4. But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him and sent +him away. + +14:5. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an +ox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the +sabbath day? + +14:6. And they could not answer him to these things. + +14:7. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking +how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: + +14:8. When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first +place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: + +14:9. And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this +man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. + +14:10. But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; +that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up +higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with +thee. + +14:11. Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he +that humbleth himself shall be exalted. + +14:12. And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a +dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy +kinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite +thee again, and a recompense be made to thee. + +14:13. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the +lame and the blind. + +14:14. And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to +make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the +resurrection of the just. + +14:15. When one of them that sat at table with him had heard these +things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the +kingdom of God. + +14:16. But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper and +invited many. + +14:17. And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them +that were invited, that they should come: for now all things are ready. + +14:18. And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to +him: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray +thee, hold me excused. + +14:19. And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to +try them. I pray thee, hold me excused. + +14:20. And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot +come. + +14:21. And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then +the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out +quickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in hither the +poor and the feeble and the blind and the lame. + +14:22. And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded; +and yet there is room. + +14:23. And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and +hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. + +14:24. But I say unto you that none of those men that were invited +shall taste of my supper. + +14:25. And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said +to them: + +14:26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and +wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, +he cannot be my disciple. + +Hate not, etc. . .The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our +enemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we +must be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and +part with every thing, how near or dear soever it may be to us, that +would keep us from following Christ. + +14:27. And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot +be my disciple. + +14:28. For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first +sit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have +wherewithal to finish it: + +14:29. Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to +finish it, all that see it begin to mock him, + +14:30. Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish. + +14:31. Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, +doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten +thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him? + +14:32. Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he +desireth conditions of peace. + +14:33. So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he +possesseth cannot be my disciple. + +14:34. Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith +shall it be seasoned? + +14:35. It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but +shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. + + + +Luke Chapter 15 + + +The parables of the lost sheep and of the prodigal son. + +15:1. Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him. + +15:2. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man +receiveth sinners and eateth with them. + +15:3. And he spoke to them this parable, saying: + +15:4. What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose +one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go +after that which was lost, until he find it? + +15:5. And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing? + +15:6. And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying +to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost? + +15:7. I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one +sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not +penance. + +15:8. Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not +light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find +it? + +15:9. And when she hath found it, call together her friends and +neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat +which I had lost. + +15:10. So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God +upon one sinner doing penance. + +Before the angels. . .By this it is plain that the spirits in heaven +have a concern for us below, and a joy at our repentance and +consequently a knowledge of it. + +15:11. And he said: A certain man had two sons. + +15:12. And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the +portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his +substance. + +15:13. And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all +together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his +substance, living riotously. + +15:14. And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that +country: and he began to be in want. + +15:15. And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. +And he sent him into his farm to feed swine. + +15:16. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine +did eat: and no man gave unto him. + +15:17. And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my +father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger! + +15:18. I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I +have sinned against heaven and before thee. + +15:19. I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy +hired servants. + +15:20. And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a +great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and +running to him fell upon his neck and kissed him. + +15:21. And the son said to him: Father: I have sinned against heaven +and before thee I am not now worthy to be called thy son. + +15:22. And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the +first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on +his feet. + +15:23. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat +and make merry: + +15:24. Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost +and is found. And they began to be merry. + +15:25. Now his elder son was in the field and when he came and drew +nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. + +15:26. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things +meant. + +15:27. And he said to him: Thy brother is come and thy father hath +killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe. + +15:28. And he was angry and would not go in. His father therefore +coming out began to entreat him. + +15:29. And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years +do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet +thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends. + +15:30. But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his +substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. + +15:31. But he said to him: Son, thou art always with me; and all I have +is thine. + +15:32. But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad: for this +thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is +found. + + + +Luke Chapter 16 + + +The parable of the unjust steward and of the rich man and Lazarus. + +16:1. And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man +who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had +wasted his goods. + +16:2. And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of +thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward +no longer. + +16:3. And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my +lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg +I am ashamed. + +16:4. I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the +stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. + +16:5. Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he +said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? + +16:6. But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take +thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. + +16:7. Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: +An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write +eighty. + +16:8. And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had +done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their +generation than the children of light. + +16:9. And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of +iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into +everlasting dwellings. + +Mammon of iniquity. . .Mammon signifies riches. They are here called the +mammon of iniquity, because oftentimes ill gotten, ill bestowed, or an +occasion of evil; and at the best are but worldly, and false; and not +the true riches of a Christian. They may receive. . .By this we see, +that the poor servants of God, whom we have relieved by our alms, may +hereafter, by their intercession, bring our souls to heaven. + +16:10. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in +that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little is +unjust also in that which is greater. + +16:11. If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who +will trust you with that which is the true? + +16:12. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, +who will give you that which is your own? + +16:13. No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the +one and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the +other. You cannot serve God and mammon. + +16:14. Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: +and they derided him. + +16:15. And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before +men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an +abomination before God. + +16:16. The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the +kingdom of God is preached: and every one useth violence towards it. + +16:17. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of +the law to fall. + +16:18. Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another +committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her +husband committeth adultery. + +16:19. There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine +linen and feasted sumptuously every day. + +16:20. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his +gate, full of sores, + +16:21. Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich +man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked +his sores. + +16:22. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the +angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was +buried in hell. + +Abraham's bosom. . .The place of rest, where the souls of the saints +resided, till Christ had opened heaven by his death. + +16:23. And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham +afar off and Lazarus in his bosom: + +16:24. And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send +Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my +tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. + +16:25. And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive +good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now +he is comforted and thou art tormented. + +16:26. And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great +chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from +thence come hither. + +16:27. And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send +him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, + +16:28. That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this +place of torments. + +16:29. And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let +them hear them. + +16:30. But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from +the dead, they will do penance. + +16:31. And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, +neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead. + + + +Luke Chapter 17 + + +Lessons of avoiding scandal and of the efficacy of faith. The ten +lepers. The manner of the coming of Christ. + +17:1. And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals +should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! + +17:2. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his +neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of +these little ones. + +17:3. Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove +him: and if he do penance, forgive him. + +17:4. And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times +in a day be converted unto thee, saying: I repent: forgive him. + +17:5. And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. + +17:6. And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard +seed, you might say to this mulberry tree: Be thou rooted up and be +thou transplanted into the sea. And it would obey you. + +17:7. But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle, +will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go. Sit +down to meat. + +17:8. And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper and gird +thyself and serve me, whilst I eat and drink; and afterwards thou shalt +eat and drink? + +17:9. Doth he thank that servant for doing the things which he +commanded him? + +17:10. I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these +things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we +have done that which we ought to do. + +Unprofitable servants. . .Because our service is of no profit to our +master; and he justly claims it as our bounden duty. But though we are +unprofitable to him, our serving him is not unprofitable to us; for he +is pleased to give by his grace a value to our good works, which, in +consequence of his promise, entitles them to an eternal reward. + +17:11. And it came to pass, as he was going to Jerusalem, he passed +through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. + +17:12. And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men +that were lepers, who stood afar off. + +17:13. And lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on +us. + +17:14. Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. +And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean. + +17:15. And one of them, when he saw that he was made clean, went back, +with a loud voice glorifying God. + +17:16. And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks. And this +was a Samaritan. + +17:17. And Jesus answering, said: Were not ten made clean? And where +are the nine? + +17:18. There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this +stranger. + +17:19. And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for thy faith hath made +thee whole. + +17:20. And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should +come, he answering them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with +observation. + +17:21. Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, +the kingdom of God is within you. + +17:22. And he said to his disciples: The days will come when you shall +desire to see one day of the Son of man. And you shall not see it. + +17:23. And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not +after, nor follow them. + +17:24. For as the lightning that lighteneth from under heaven shineth +unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his +day. + +17:25. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this +generation. + +17:26. And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also +in the days of the Son of man. + +17:27. They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in +marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood +came and destroyed them all. + +17:28. Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and +drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. + +17:29. And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and +brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. + +17:30. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be +revealed. + +17:31. In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in +the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be +in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. + +17:32. Remember Lot's wife. + +17:33. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and +whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it. + +17:34. I say to you: In that night there shall be two men in one bed. +The one shall be taken and the other shall be left. + +17:35. Two women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken and +the other shall be left. Two men shall be in the field. The one shall +be taken and the other shall be left. + +17:36. They answering, say to him: Where, Lord? + +17:37. Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will +the eagles also be gathered together. + + + +Luke Chapter 18 + + +We must pray always. The Pharisee and the publican. The danger of +riches. The blind man is restored to sight. + +18:1. And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray +and not to faint, + +18:2. Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God +nor regarded man. + +18:3. And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him, +saying: Avenge me of my adversary. + +Avenge. . .That is, do me justice. It is a Hebraism. + +18:4. And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within +himself: Although I fear not God nor regard man, + +18:5. Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, +lest continually coming she weary me. + +18:6. And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith. + +18:7. And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? +And will he have patience in their regard? + +18:8. I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son +of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? + +18:9. And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised +others, he spoke also this parable: + +18:10. Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and +the other a publican. + +18:11. The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give +thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, +adulterers, as also is this publican. + +18:12. I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. + +18:13. And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift +up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be +merciful to me a sinner. + +18:14. I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather +than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be +humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. + +18:15. And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch +them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them. + +18:16. But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come +to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. + +18:17. Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of +God as a child shall not enter into it. + +18:18. And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I +do to possess everlasting life? + +18:19. And Jesus said to him: Why dost thou call me good? None is good +but God alone. + +18:20. Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt +not commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false +witness: Honour thy father and mother. + +18:21. Who said: All these things have I kept from my youth. + +18:22. Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is +wanting to thee. Sell all whatever thou hast and give to the poor: and +thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me. + +18:23. He having heard these things, became sorrowful: for he was very +rich. + +18:24. And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall +they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God + +18:25. For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle +than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. + +18:26. And they that heard it said: Who then can be saved? + +18:27. He said to them: The things that are impossible with men are +possible with God. + +18:28. Then Peter said: Behold, we have left all things and have +followed thee. + +18:29. Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath +left home or parents or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom +of God's sake, + +18:30. Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the +world to come life everlasting. + +18:31. Then Jesus took unto him the twelve and said to them: Behold, we +go up to Jerusalem; and all things shall be accomplished which were +written by the prophets concerning the Son of man. + +18:32. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked +and scourged and spit upon. + +18:33. And after they have scourged him, they will put him to death. +And the third day he shall rise again. + +18:34. And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid +from them: and they understood not the things that were said. + +18:35. Now it came to pass, when he drew nigh to Jericho, that a +certain blind man sat by the way side, begging. + +18:36. And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this +meant. + +18:37. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. + +18:38. And he cried out, saying: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. + +18:39. And they that went before rebuked him, that he should hold his +peace: but he cried out much more: Son of David, have mercy on me. + +18:40. And Jesus standing, commanded him to be brought unto him. And +when he was come near, he asked him, + +18:41. Saying; What wilt thou that I do to thee? But he said: Lord, +that I may see. + +18:42. And Jesus said to him: Receive thy sight: thy faith hath made +thee whole. + +18:43. And immediately he saw and followed him, glorifying God. And all +the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. + + + +Luke Chapter 19 + + +Zacheus entertains Christ. The parable of the pounds. Christ rides upon +an ass and weeps over Jerusalem. + +19:1. And entering he walked through Jericho. + +19:2. And behold, there was a man named Zacheus, who was the chief of +the publicans: and he was rich. + +19:3. And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the +crowd, because he was low of stature. + +19:4. And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he +might see him: for he was to pass that way. + +19:5. And when Jesus was come to the place, looking up, he saw him and +said to him: Zacheus, make haste and come down: for this day I must +abide in thy house. + +19:6. And he made haste and came down and received him with joy. + +19:7. And when all saw it, they murmured, saying, that he was gone to +be a guest with a man that was a sinner. + +19:8. But Zacheus standing, said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of +my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wronged any man of any +thing, I restore him fourfold. + +19:9. Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house, +because he also is a son of Abraham. + +19:10. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was +lost. + +19:11. As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, +because he was nigh to Jerusalem and because they thought that the +kingdom of God should immediately be manifested. + +19:12. He said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, +to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. + +19:13. And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said +to them: Trade till I come. + +He gave them ten pounds. . .In the original, what is here translated a +pound, is in Latin, mina, in value of our coin, three pounds two +shillings and sixpence. + +19:14. But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, +saying: We will not have this man to reign over us. + +19:15. And it came to pass that he returned, having received the +kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had +given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by +trading, + +19:16. And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten +pounds. + +19:17. And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou +hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities. + +19:18. And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five +pounds. + +19:19. And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities. + +19:20. And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which +I have kept laid up in a napkin. + +19:21. For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest +up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst +not sow. + +19:22. He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked +servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid +not down and reaping that which I did not sow. + +19:23. And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at +my coming I might have exacted it with usury? + +19:24. And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him +and give it to him that hath ten pounds. + +19:25. And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds. + +19:26. But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and +he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath +shall be taken from him. + +19:27. But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over +them, bring them hither and kill them before me. + +19:28. And having said these things, he went before, going up to +Jerusalem. + +19:29. And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and +Bethania, unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, + +19:30. Saying: Go into the town which is over against you, at your +entering into which you shall find the colt of an ass tied, on which no +man ever hath sitten: loose him and bring him hither. + +19:31. And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? You shall +say thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service. + +19:32. And they that were sent went their way and found the colt +standing, as he said unto them. + +19:33. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said to +them: Why loose you the colt? + +19:34. But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him. + +19:35. And they brought him to Jesus. And casting their garments on the +colt, they set Jesus thereon. + +19:36. And as he went, they spread their clothes underneath in the way. + +19:37. And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet, the +whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a +loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen, + +19:38. Saying: Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord! +Peace in heaven and glory on high! + +19:39. And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to +him: Master, rebuke thy disciples. + +19:40. To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their +peace, the stones will cry out. + +19:41. And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: + +19:42. If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things +that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. + +19:43. For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a +trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every +side, + +19:44. And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in +thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because +thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. + +19:45. And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that +sold therein and them that bought. + +19:46. Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. +But you have made it a den of thieves. + +19:47. And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests +and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him. + +19:48. And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were +very attentive to hear him. + + + +Luke Chapter 20 + + +The parable of the husbandmen. Of paying tribute to Caesar and of the +resurrection of the dead. + +20:1. And it came to pass that on one of the days, as he was teaching +the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests +and the scribes, with the ancients, met together, + +20:2. And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what authority dost thou +these things? Or, who is he that hath given thee this authority? + +20:3. And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one thing. +Answer me: + +20:4. The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? + +20:5. But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From +heaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe in him? + +20:6. But if we say, of men: the whole people will stone us. For they +are persuaded that John was a prophet. + +20:7. And they answered that they knew not whence it was. + +20:8. And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I +do these things. + +20:9. And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man +planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for +a long time. + +20:10. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they +should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent +him away empty. + +20:11. And again he sent another servant. But they beat him also and, +treating him reproachfully, sent him away empty. + +20:12. And again he sent the third: and they wounded him also and cast +him out. + +20:13. Then the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send +my beloved son. It may be, when they see him, they will reverence him. + +20:14. Whom, when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves, +saying: This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be +ours. + +20:15. So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What +therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? + +20:16. He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the +vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid. + +20:17. But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written, +The stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of +the corner? + +20:18. Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised: and upon +whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. + +20:19. And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him +the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke +this parable to them. + +20:20. And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign +themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that +they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. + +20:21. And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest +and teachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but +teachest the way of God in truth. + +20:22. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no? + +20:23. But he, considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me? + +20:24. Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They +answering, said to him: Caesar's. + +20:25. And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things, that +are Caesar's: and to God the things that are God's. + +20:26. And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and +wondering at his answer, they held their peace. + +20:27. And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there +is any resurrection: and they asked him, + +20:28. Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us: If any man's brother die, +having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take +her to wife and raise up seed unto his brother. + +20:29. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife +and died without children. + +20:30. And the next took her to wife: and he also died childless. + +20:31. And the third took her. And in like manner, all the seven: and +they left no children and died. + +20:32. Last of all the woman died also. + +20:33. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? +For all the seven had her to wife. + +20:34. And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry and are +given in marriage: + +20:35. But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the +resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives. + +20:36. Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels +and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. + +20:37. Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed at the bush, +when he called the Lord: The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and +the God of Jacob. + +20:38. For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all +live to him. + +20:39. And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou +hast said well. + +20:40. And after that they durst not ask him any more questions. + +20:41. But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of +David? + +20:42. And David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to +my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, + +20:43. Till I make thy enemies thy footstool. + +20:44. David then calleth him Lord. And how is he his son? + +20:45. And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples: + +20:46. Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love +salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues +and the chief rooms at feasts: + +20:47. Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These +shall receive greater damnation. + + + +Luke Chapter 21 + + +The widow's mites. The signs that should forerun the destruction of +Jerusalem and the end of the world. + +21:1. And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the +treasury. + +21:2. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites. + +21:3. And he said: Verily, I say to you that this poor widow hath cast +in more than they all. + +21:4. For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of +God: but she of her want hath cast in all the living that she had. + +21:5. And some saying of the temple that it was adorned with goodly +stones and gifts, he said: + +21:6. These things which you see, the days will come in which there +shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down. + +21:7. And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be? +And what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass? + +21:8. Who said: Take heed you be not seduced: for many will come in my +name, saying: I am he and the time is at hand. Go ye not therefore +after them. + +21:9. And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified. +These things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently. + +21:10. Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and +kingdom against kingdom. + +21:11. And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places and +pestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be +great signs. + +21:12. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you +and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into +prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake. + +21:13. And it shall happen unto you for a testimony. + +21:14. Lay it up therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before how +you shall answer: + +21:15. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your +adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay. + +21:16. And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren and +kinsmen and friends: and some of you they will put to death. + +21:17. And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. + +21:18. But a hair of your head shall not perish. + +21:19. In your patience you shall possess your souls. + +21:20. And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, +then know that the desolation thereof is at hand. + +21:21. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains: and those +who are in the midst thereof depart out: and those who are in the +countries not enter into it. + +21:22. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be +fulfilled, that are written. + +21:23. But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: +for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this +people. + +21:24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led +away captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by +the Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled. + +21:25. And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the +stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the +confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves: + +21:26. Men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come +upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved. + +21:27. And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with +great power and majesty. + +21:28. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up +your heads, because your redemption is at hand. + +21:29. And he spoke to them a similitude. See the fig tree and all the +trees: + +21:30. When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is +nigh; + +21:31. So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know +that the kingdom of God is at hand. + +21:32. Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away till all +things be fulfilled. + +21:33. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass +away. + +21:34. And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be +overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: +and that day come upon you suddenly. + +21:35. For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of +the whole earth. + +21:36. Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be +accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to +stand before the Son of man. + +21:37. And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night +going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet. + +21:38. And all the people came early in the morning to him in the +temple, to hear him. + + + +Luke Chapter 22 + + +The treason of Judas. The last supper. The first part of the history of +the passion. + +22:1. Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was +at hand. + +22:2. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put +Jesus to death: but they feared the people. + +22:3. And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, one of +the twelve. + +22:4. And he went and discoursed with the chief priests and the +magistrates, how he might betray him to them. + +22:5. And they were glad and covenanted to give him money. + +22:6. And he promised. And he sought opportunity to betray him in the +absence of the multitude. + +22:7. And the day of the unleavened bread came, on which it was +necessary that the pasch should be killed. + +22:8. And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go, and prepare for us the +pasch, that we may eat. + +22:9. But they said: Where wilt thou that we prepare? + +22:10. And he said to them: Behold, as you go into the city, there +shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water: follow him into the +house where he entereth in. + +22:11. And you shall say to the goodman of the house: The master saith +to thee: Where is the guest chamber, where I may eat the pasch with my +disciples? + +22:12. And he will shew you a large dining room, furnished. And there +prepare. + +22:13. And they going, found as he had said to them and made ready the +pasch. + +22:14. And when the hour was come, he sat down: and the twelve apostles +with him. + +22:15. And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this +pasch with you, before I suffer. + +22:16. For I say to you that from this time I will not eat it, till it +be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. + +22:17. And having taken the chalice, he gave thanks and said: Take and +divide it among you. + +22:18. For I say to you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, +till the kingdom of God come. + +22:19. And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, +saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a +commemoration of me. + +Do this for a commemoration of me. . .This sacrifice and sacrament is to +be continued in the church, to the end of the world, to shew forth the +death of Christ, until he cometh. But this commemoration, or +remembrance, is by no means inconsistent with the real presence of his +body and blood, under these sacramental veils, which represent his +death; on the contrary, it is the manner that he himself hath +commanded, of commemorating and celebrating his death, by offering in +sacrifice, and receiving in the sacrament, that body and blood by which +we were redeemed. + +22:20. In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: +This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed +for you. + +22:21. But yet behold: the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on +the table. + +22:22. And the Son of man indeed goeth, according to that which is +determined: but yet, woe to that man by whom he shall be betrayed. + +22:23. And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was +that should do this thing. + +22:24. And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should +seem to be the greater. + +22:25. And he said to them: The kings of the Gentiles lord it over +them; and they that have power over them are called beneficent. + +22:26. But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him +become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth. + +22:27. For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that +serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, +as he that serveth. + +22:28. And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations: + +22:29. And I dispose to you, as my Father hath disposed to me, a +kingdom; + +22:30. That you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom: and may +sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. + +22:31. And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to +have you, that he may sift you as wheat. + +22:32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, +being once converted, confirm thy brethren. + +22:33. Who said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into +prison and to death. + +22:34. And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this +day, till thou thrice deniest that thou knowest me. And he said to +them: + +22:35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want +anything? + +22:36. But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that +hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath +not, let him sell his coat and buy a sword. + +22:37. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled +in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning +me have an end. + +22:38. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to +them: It is enough. + +22:39. And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the Mount of +Olives. And his disciples also followed him. + +22:40. And when he was come to the place, he said to them: Pray, lest +ye enter into temptation. + +22:41. And he was withdrawn away from them a stone's cast. And kneeling +down, he prayed. + +22:42. Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me: but +yet not my will, but thine be done. + +22:43. And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening +him. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer. + +22:44. And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the +ground. + +22:45. And when he rose up from prayer and was come to the disciples, +he found them sleeping for sorrow. + +22:46. And he said to them: Why sleep you? Arise: pray: lest you +enter into temptation. + +22:47. As he was yet speaking, behold a multitude; and he that was +called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to +Jesus, for to kiss him. + +22:48. And Jesus said to him: Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man +with a kiss? + +22:49. And they that were about him, seeing what would follow, said to +him: Lord, shall we strike with the sword? + +22:50. And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut +off his right ear. + +22:51. But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when he had +touched his ear, he healed him. + +22:52. And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the +temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as +it were against a thief, with swords and clubs? + +22:53. When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch +forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of +darkness. + +22:54. And apprehending him, they led him to the high priest's house. +But Peter followed afar off. + +22:55. And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and +were sitting about it, Peter was in the midst of them. + +22:56. Whom when a certain servant maid had seen sitting at the light +and had earnestly beheld him, she said: This man also was with him. + +22:57. But he denied him, saying: Woman, I know him not. + +22:58. And after a little while, another seeing him, said: Thou also +art one of them. But Peter said: O man, I am not. + +Another, etc. . .Observe here, in order to reconcile the four +Evangelists, that divers persons concurred in charging Peter with being +Christ's disciple; till at length they brought him to deny him thrice. +1. The porteress that let him in, and afterwards seeing him at the +fire, first put the question to him; and then positively affirmed that +he was with Christ. 2. Another maid accused him to the standers by; and +gave occasion to the man here mentioned to renew the charge against +him, which caused the second denial. 3. Others of the company took +notice of his being a Galilean; and were seconded by the kinsman of +Malchus, who affirmed he had seen him in the garden. And this drew on +the third denial. + +22:59. And after the space, as it were of one hour, another certain man +affirmed, saying: Of a truth, this man was also with him: for he is +also a Galilean. + +22:60. And Peter said: Man, I know not what thou sayest. And +immediately, as he was yet speaking, the cock crew. + +22:61. And the Lord turning looked on Peter. And Peter remembered the +word of the Lord, as he had said: Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny +thrice. + +22:62. And Peter going out, wept bitterly. + +22:63. And the men that held him mocked him and struck him. + +22:64. And they blindfolded him and smote his face. And they asked him +saying: Prophesy: Who is it that struck thee? + +22:65. And blaspheming, many other things they said against him. + +22:66. And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people and the +chief priests and scribes came together. And they brought him into +their council saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us. + +22:67. And he saith to them: If I shall tell you, you will not believe +me. + +22:68. And if I shall also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me +go. + +22:69. But hereafter the Son of man shall be sitting on the right hand +of the power of God. + +22:70. Then said they all: Art thou then the Son of God? Who said: You +say that I am. + +22:71. And they said: What need we any further testimony? For we +ourselves have heard it from his own mouth. + + + +Luke Chapter 23 + + +The continuation of the history of the passion. + +23:1. And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate. + +23:2. And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man +perverting our nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar and +saying that he is Christ the king. + +23:3. And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? But +he answering, said: Thou sayest it. + +23:4. And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I +find no cause in this man. + +23:5. But they were more earnest, saying: He stirreth up the people, +teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place. + +23:6. But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if the man were of Galilee? + +23:7. And when he understood that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he +sent him away to Herod, who was also himself at Jerusalem in those +days. + +23:8. And Herod seeing Jesus, was very glad: for he was desirous of a +long time to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he +hoped to see some sign wrought by him. + +23:9. And he questioned him in many words. But he answered him nothing. + +23:10. And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly +accusing him. + +23:11. And Herod with his army set him at nought and mocked him, +putting on him a white garment: and sent him back to Pilate. + +23:12. And Herod and Pilate were made friends, that same day: for +before they were enemies one to another. + +23:13. And Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the +magistrates and the people, + +23:14. Said to them: You have presented unto me this man as one that +perverteth the people. And behold I, having examined him before you, +find no cause in this man, in those things wherein you accuse him. + +23:15. No, nor Herod neither. For, I sent you to him: and behold, +nothing worthy of death is done to him. + +23:16. I will chastise him therefore and release him. + +23:17. Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast +day. + +23:18. But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with +this man, and release unto us Barabbas: + +23:19. Who, for a certain sedition made in the city and for a murder, +was cast into prison. + +23:20. And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus. + +23:21. But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. + +23:22. And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man +done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore +and let him go. + +23:23. But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might +be crucified. And their voices prevailed. + +23:24. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. + +23:25. And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition had +been cast into prison, whom they had desired. But Jesus he delivered up +to their will. + +23:26. And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, +coming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after +Jesus. + +23:27. And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, +who bewailed and lamented him. + +23:28. But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep +not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children. + +23:29. For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed +are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have +not given suck. + +23:30. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And +to the hills: Cover us. + +23:31. For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be +done in the dry? + +23:32. And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put +to death. + +23:33. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, +they crucified him there: and the robbers, one on the right hand, and +the other on the left. + +23:34. And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what +they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots. + +23:35. And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided +him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, +the elect of God. + +23:36. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him +vinegar, + +23:37. And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. + +23:38. And there was also a superscription written over him in letters +of Greek and Latin and Hebrew THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. + +23:39. And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying: +If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. + +23:40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou +fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation? + +23:41. And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our +deeds. But this man hath done no evil. + +23:42. And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come +into thy kingdom. + +23:43. And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt +be with me in paradise. + +In paradise. . .That is, in the happy state of rest, joy, and peace +everlasting. Christ was pleased, by a special privilege, to reward the +faith and confession of the penitent thief, with a full discharge of +all his sins, both as to the guilt and punishment; and to introduce him +immediately after death into the happy society of the saints, whose +limbo, that is, the place of their confinement, was now made a paradise +by our Lord's going thither. + +23:44. And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over +all the earth until the ninth hour. + +23:45. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in +the midst. + +23:46. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands +I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost. + +23:47. Now, the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: +Indeed this was a just man. + +23:48. And all the multitude of them that were come together to that +sight and saw the things that were done returned, striking their +breasts. + +23:49. And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him +from Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things. + +23:50. And behold there was a man named Joseph who was a counsellor, a +good and a just man, + +23:51. (The same had not consented to their counsel and doings) of +Arimathea, a city of Judea: who also himself looked for the kingdom of +God. + +23:52. This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. + +23:53. And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him +in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had +been laid. + +23:54. And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on. + +Parasceve. . .That is, the eve, or day of preparation for the sabbath. + +23:55. And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following +after, saw the sepulchre and how his body was laid. + +23:56. And returning, they prepared spices and ointments: and on the +sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment. + + + +Luke Chapter 24 + + +Christ's resurrection and manifestation of himself to his disciples. + +24:1. And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they +came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared. + +24:2. And they found the stone rolled back from the sepulchre. + +24:3. And going in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus. + +24:4. And it came to pass, as they were astonished in their mind at +this, behold, two men stood by them, in shining apparel. + +24:5. And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards +the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead? + +24:6. He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you, +when he was yet in Galilee, + +24:7. Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful +men and be crucified and the third day rise again. + +24:8. And they remembered his words. + +24:9. And going back from the sepulchre, they told all these things to +the eleven and to all the rest. + +24:10. And it was Mary Magdalen and Joanna and Mary of James and the +other women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles. + +24:11. And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not +believe them. + +24:12. But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre and, stooping down, he +saw the linen cloths laid by themselves: and went away wondering in +himself at that which was come to pass. + +24:13. And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was +sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus. + +24:14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. + +24:15. And it came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with +themselves, Jesus himself also, drawing near, went with them. + +24:16. But their eyes were held, that they should not know him. + +24:17. And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one +with another as you walk and are sad? + +24:18. And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to +him: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the +things that have been done there in these days? + +24:19. To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus +of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and +all the people. + +24:20. And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be +condemned to death and crucified him. + +24:21. But we hoped that it was he that should have redeemed Israel. +And now besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things +were done. + +24:22. Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us who, +before it was light, were at the sepulchre, + +24:23. And not finding his body, came, saying that they had all seen a +vision of angels, who say that he is alive. + +24:24. And some of our people went to the sepulchre and found it so as +the women had said: but him they found not. + +24:25. Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in +all things, Which the prophets have spoken. + +24:26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so, to enter +into his glory? + +24:27. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to +them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him. + +24:28. And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he +made as though he would go farther. + +24:29. But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is +towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them. + +24:30. And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took +bread and blessed and brake and gave to them. + +24:31. And their eyes were opened: and they knew him. And he vanished +out of their sight. + +24:32. And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within +us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures? + +24:33. And rising up, the same hour, they went back to Jerusalem: and +they found the eleven gathered together, and those that were with them, + +24:34. Saying: The Lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon. + +24:35. And they told what things were done in the way: and how they +knew him in the breaking of bread. + +24:36. Now, whilst they were speaking these things, Jesus stood in the +midst of them and saith to them: Peace be to you. It is I: Fear not. + +24:37. But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a +spirit. + +24:38. And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts +arise in your hearts? + +24:39. See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Handle, and see: for +a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me to have. + +24:40. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet. + +24:41. But while they yet believed not and wondered for joy, he said: +Have you here any thing to eat? + +24:42. And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish and a honeycomb. + +24:43. And when he had eaten before them, taking the remains, he gave +to them. + +24:44. And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you +while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which +are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, +concerning me. + +24:45. Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand +the scriptures. + +24:46. And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved +Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead, the third day: + +24:47. And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his +name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. + +24:48. And you are witnesses of these things. + +24:49. And I send the promise of my Father upon you: but stay you in +the city till you be endued with power from on high. + +The promise of my Father. . .that is, the Holy Ghost, whom Christ had +promised that his Father and he would send, John 14. 26, and 17. 7. + +24:50. And he led them out as far as Bethania: and lifting up his +hands, he blessed them. + +24:51. And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from +them and was carried up to heaven. + +24:52. And they adoring went back into Jerusalem with great joy. + +24:53. And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. +Amen. + + + + +THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN + + + +St. John the Apostle and Evangelist was the son of Zebedee and Salome, +brother to James the Greater. He was called the Beloved disciple of +Christ and stood by at his Crucifixion. He wrote the Gospel after the +other Evangelists, about sixty-three years after our Lord's Ascension. +Many things that they had omitted were supplied by him. The original +was written in Greek; and by the Greeks he is titled: The Divine. St. +Jerome relates that, when he was earnestly requested by the brethren to +write the Gospel, he answered he would do it, if by ordering a common +fast, they would all put up their prayers together to the Almighty God; +which being ended replenished with the clearest and fullest revelation +coming from Heaven, he burst forth into that preface: IN THE BEGINNING +WAS THE WORD. + + + +John Chapter 1 + + +The divinity and incarnation of Christ. John bears witness of him. He +begins to call his disciples. + +1:1. In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the +Word was God. + +1:2. The same was in the beginning with God. + +1:3. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that +was made. + +1:4. In him was life: and the life was the light of men. + +1:5. And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not +comprehend it. + +1:6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. + +1:7. This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that +all men might believe through him. + +1:8. He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light. + +1:9. That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh +into this world. + +1:10. He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world +knew him not. + +1:11. He came unto his own: and his own received him not. + +1:12. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the +sons of God, to them that believe in his name. + +1:13. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of +the will of man, but of God. + +1:14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his +glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full +of grace and truth. + +1:15. John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he +of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: +because he was before me. + +1:16. And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace. + +1:17. For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus +Christ. + +1:18. No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in +the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. + +1:19. And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from +Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou? + +1:20. And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the +Christ. + +1:21. And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I +am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No. + +1:22. They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an +answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself? + +1:23. He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make +straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias. + +1:24. And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. + +1:25. And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, +if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? + +1:26. John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath +stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not. + +1:27. The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before +me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose. + +1:28. These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John +was baptizing. + +1:29. The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold +the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world. + +1:30. This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is +preferred before me: because he was before me. + +1:31. And I knew him not: but that he may be made manifest in Israel, +therefore am I come baptizing with water. + +1:32. And John gave testimony, saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as +a dove from heaven; and he remained upon him. + +1:33. And I knew him not: but he who sent me to baptize with water said +to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining +upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. + +1:34. And I saw: and I gave testimony that this is the Son of God. + +1:35. The next day again John stood and two of his disciples. + +1:36. And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. + +1:37. And the two disciples heard him speak: and they followed Jesus. + +1:38. And Jesus turning and seeing them following him, saith to them: +What seek you? Who said to him: Rabbi (which is to say, being +interpreted, Master), where dwellest thou? + +1:39. He saith to them: Come and see. They came and saw where he abode: +and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour. + +1:40. And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who +had heard of John and followed him. + +1:41. He findeth first his brother Simon and saith to him: We have +found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. + +1:42. And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: +Thou art Simon the son of Jona. Thou shalt be called Cephas, which is +interpreted Peter. + +1:43. On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee: and he +findeth Philip, And Jesus saith to him: follow me. + +1:44. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. + +1:45. Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of +whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of +Joseph of Nazareth. + +1:46. And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from +Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see. + +1:47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an +Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. + +1:48. Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered +and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under +the fig tree, I saw thee. + +1:49. Nathanael answered him and said: Rabbi: Thou art the Son of God. +Thou art the King of Israel. + +1:50. Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw +thee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these +shalt thou see. + +1:51. And he saith to him: Amen, amen, I say to you, you shall see the +heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the +Son of man. + + + +John Chapter 2 + + +Christ changes water into wine. He casts the sellers out of the temple. + +2:1. And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and +the mother of Jesus was there. + +2:2. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage. + +2:3. And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have +no wine. + +2:4. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My +hour is not yet come. + +What is that to me, etc. . .These words of our Saviour, spoken to his +mother, have been understood by some commentators as harsh, they not +considering the next following verse: Whatsoever he shall say to you, +do ye, which plainly shows that his mother knew of the miracle that he +was to perform, and that it was at her request he wrought it; besides +the manner of speaking the words as to the tone, and the countenance +shown at the same time, which could only be known to those who were +present, or from what had followed: for words indicating anger in one +tone of voice, would be understood quite the reverse in another. + +2:5. His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, +do ye. + +2:6. Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the +manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures +apiece. + +2:7. Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they +filled them up to the brim. + +2:8. And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief +steward of the feast. And they carried it. + +2:9. And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine and knew +not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water: the +chief steward calleth the bridegroom, + +2:10. And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and +when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept +the good wine until now. + +2:11. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and +manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. + +2:12. After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his +brethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days. + +2:13. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to +Jerusalem. + +2:14. And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and +doves, and the changers of money sitting. + +2:15. And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he +drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the +money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew. + +2:16. And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and +make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. + +2:17. And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of +thy house hath eaten me up. + +2:18. The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost +thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? + +2:19. Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in +three days I will raise it up. + +2:20. The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in +building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days? + +2:21. But he spoke of the temple of his body. + +2:22. When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples +remembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and +the word that Jesus had said. + +2:23. Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival +day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did. + +2:24. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all +men, + +2:25. And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: +for he knew what was in man. + + + +John Chapter 3 + + +Christ's discourse with Nicodemus. John's testimony. + +3:1. And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of +the Jews. + +3:2. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him: Rabbi, we know +that thou art come a teacher from God; for no man can do these signs +which thou dost, unless God be with him. + +3:3. Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless +a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. + +3:4. Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can +he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born again? + +3:5. Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born +again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of +God. + +Unless a man be born again, etc. . .By these words our Saviour hath +declared the necessity of baptism; and by the word water it is evident +that the application of it is necessary with the words. Matt. 28. 19. + +3:6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born +of the Spirit is spirit. + +3:7. Wonder not that I said to thee: You must be born again. + +3:8. The Spirit breatheth where he will and thou hearest his voice: but +thou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every one +that is born of the Spirit. + +3:9. Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be done? + +3:10. Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and +knowest not these things? + +3:11. Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we +testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. + +3:12. If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how +will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things? + +3:13. And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from +heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. + +3:14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son +of man be lifted up: + +3:15. That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life +everlasting. + +3:16. For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: +that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life +everlasting. + +3:17. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but +that the world may be saved by him. + +3:18. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not +believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the +only begotten Son of God. + +Is not judged. . .He that believeth, viz., by a faith working through +charity, is not judged, that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate +unbeliever is judged, that is, condemned already, by retrenching +himself from the society of Christ and his church. + +3:19. And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the +world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works +were evil. + +The judgment. . .That is, the cause of his comdemnation. + +3:20. For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to +the light, that his works may not be reproved. + +3:21. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be +made manifest: because they are done in God. + +He that doth truth. . .that is, he that acteth according to truth, which +here signifies the Law of God. Thy law is truth. Psa. 118. 142. + +3:22. After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of +Judea: and there he abode with them and baptized. + +3:23. And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there +was much water there. And they came and were baptized. + +3:24. For John was not yet cast into prison. + +3:25. And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and +the Jews, concerning purification. + +3:26. And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with +thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony: behold, he +baptizeth and all men come to him. + +3:27. John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it +be given him from heaven. + +3:28. You yourselves do bear me witness that I said that I am not +Christ, but that I am sent before him. + +3:29. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the +bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of +the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. + +3:30. He must increase: but I must decrease. + +3:31. He that cometh from above is above all. He that is of the earth, +of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from +heaven is above all. + +3:32. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man +receiveth his testimony. + +3:33. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God +is true. + +3:34. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth +not give the Spirit by measure. + +3:35. The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his +hand. + +3:36. He that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he that +believeth not the Son shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth +on him. + + + +John Chapter 4 + + +Christ talks with the Samaritan woman. He heals the ruler's son. + +4:1. When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus +maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John + +4:2. (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples), + +4:3. He left Judea and went again into Galilee. + +4:4. And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria. + +4:5. He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, +near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. + +4:6. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with +his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. + +4:7. There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to +her: Give me to drink. + +4:8. For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. + +4:9. Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a +Jew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not +communicate with the Samaritans. + +4:10. Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of +God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps +wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. + +4:11. The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, +and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water? + +4:12. Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and +drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle? + +4:13. Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water +shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will +give him shall not thirst for ever. + +4:14. But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain +of water, springing up into life everlasting. + +4:15. The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not +thirst, nor come hither to draw. + +4:16. Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. + +4:17. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to +her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband. + +4:18. For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not +thy husband. This, thou hast said truly. + +4:19. The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. + +4:20. Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at +Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. + +This mountain. . .Garizim, where the Samaritans had their schismatical +temple. + +4:21. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when +you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father. + +4:22. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. +For salvation is of the Jews. + +4:23. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore +the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to +adore him. + +4:24. God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit +and in truth. + +4:25. The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is +called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things. + +4:26. Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee. + +4:27. And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he +talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why +talkest thou with her? + +4:28. The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the +city and saith to the men there: + +4:29. Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have +done. Is not he the Christ? + +4:30. They went therefore out of the city and came unto him. + +4:31. In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat. + +4:32. But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not. + +4:33. The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought +him to eat? + +4:34. Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent +me, that I may perfect his work. + +4:35. Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest +cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. +For they are white already to harvest. + +4:36. And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life +everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice +together. + +4:37. For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, +and it is another that reapeth. + +4:38. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others +have laboured: and you have entered into their labours. + +4:39. Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the +word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I +have done. + +4:40. So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he +would tarry there. And he abode there two days. + +4:41. And many more believed in him, because of his own word. + +4:42. And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: +for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the +Saviour of the world. + +4:43. Now after two days, he departed thence and went into Galilee. + +4:44. For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in +his own country. + +4:45. And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, +having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival +day: for they also went to the festival day. + +4:46. He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the +water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at +Capharnaum. + +4:47. He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, sent +to him and prayed him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the +point of death. + +4:48. Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, +you believe not. + +4:49. The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die. + +4:50. Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed +the word which Jesus said to him and went his way. + +4:51. And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought +word, saying, that his son lived. + +4:52. He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And +they said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him. + +4:53. The father therefore knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus +said to him: Thy son liveth. And himself believed, and his whole house. + +4:54. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come +out of Judea. into Galilee. + + + +John Chapter 5 + + +Christ heals on the sabbath the man languishing thirty-eight years. His +discourse upon this occasion. + +5:1. After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went +up to Jerusalem. + +5:2. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in +Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. + +Probatica. . .That is, the sheep pond; either so called, because the +sheep were washed therein, that were to be offered up in sacrifice in +the temple, or because it was near the sheep gate. That this was a pond +where miracles were wrought is evident from the sacred text; and also +that the water had no natural virtue to heal, as one only of those put +in after the motion of the water was restored to health; for if the +water had the healing quality, the others would have the like benefit, +being put into it about the same time. + +5:3. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of +withered: waiting for the moving of the water. + +5:4. And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond +and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond +after the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he +lay under. + +5:5. And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty +years under his infirmity. + +5:6. Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a +long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole? + +5:7. The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is +troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another +goeth down before me. + +5:8. Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk. + +5:9. And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and +walked. And it was the sabbath that day. + +5:10. The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the +sabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. + +5:11. He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up +thy bed and walk. + +5:12. They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take +up thy bed and walk? + +5:13. But he who was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus went aside +from the multitude standing in the place. + +5:14. Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: +Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen +to thee. + +5:15. The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had +made him whole. + +5:16. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these +things on the sabbath. + +5:17. But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work. + +5:18. Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because +he did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father, +making himself equal to God. + +5:19. Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, +the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father +doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like +manner. + +5:20. For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things which +himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you +may wonder. + +5:21. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son +also giveth life to whom he will. + +5:22. For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all +judgment to the Son. + +5:23. That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He +who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him. + +5:24. Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and +believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into +judgment, but is passed from death to life. + +5:25. Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, +when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that +hear shall live. + +5:26. For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the +Son also to have life in himself. + +5:27. And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son +of man. + +5:28. Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in +the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. + +5:29. And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the +resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the +resurrection of judgment. + +Unto the resurrection of judgment. . .That is, condemnation. + +5:30. I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my +judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him +that sent me. + +5:31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. + +5:32. There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the +witness which he witnesseth of me is true. + +5:33. You sent to John: and he gave testimony to the truth. + +5:34. But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, +that you may be saved. + +5:35. He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a +time to rejoice in his light. + +5:36. But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works +which the Father hath given me to perfect, the works themselves which I +do, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me. + +5:37. And the Father himself who hath sent me hath given testimony of +me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. + +5:38. And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, +him you believe not. + +5:39. Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life +everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me. + +Or. . .You search the scriptures. Scrutamini. . .It is not a command for +all to read the scriptures; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that +reading the scriptures as they did, and thinking to find everlasting +life in them, they would not receive him to whom all those scriptures +gave testimony, and through whom alone they could have that true life. + +5:40. And you will not come to me that you may have life. + +5:41. I receive not glory from men. + +5:42. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. + +5:43. I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if +another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. + +5:44. How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the +glory which is from God alone, you do not seek? + +5:45. Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that +accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust. + +5:46. For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: +for he wrote of me. + +5:47. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my +words? + + + +John Chapter 6 + + +Christ feeds five thousand with five loaves. He walks upon the sea and +discourses of the bread of life. + +6:1. After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is +that of Tiberias. + +6:2. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles +which he did on them that were diseased. + +6:3. Jesus therefore went up into a mountain: and there he sat with his +disciples. + +6:4. Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. + +6:5. When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very +great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy +bread, that these may eat? + +6:6. And this he said to try him: for he himself knew what he would do. + +6:7. Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not +sufficient for them that every one may take a little. + +6:8. One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to +him: + +6:9. There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. +But what are these among so many? + +6:10. Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass +in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five +thousand. + +6:11. And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he +distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the +fishes, as much as they would. + +6:12. And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up +the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. + +6:13. They gathered up therefore and filled twelve baskets with the +fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above to +them that had eaten. + +6:14. Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, +said: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world. + +6:15. Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by +force and make him king, fled again into the mountains, himself alone. + +6:16. And when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea. + +6:17. And when they had gone up into a ship, they went over the sea to +Capharnaum. And it was now dark: and Jesus was not come unto them. + +6:18. And the sea arose, by reason of a great wind that blew. + +6:19. When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty +furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh to the +ship. And they were afraid. + +6:20. But he saith to them: It is I. Be not afraid. + +6:21. They were willing therefore to take him into the ship. And +presently the ship was at the land to which they were going. + +6:22. The next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the +sea saw that there was no other ship there but one: and that Jesus had +not entered into the ship with his disciples, but that his disciples +were gone away alone. + +6:23. But other ships came in from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where +they had eaten the bread, the Lord giving thanks. + +6:24. When therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor +his disciples, they took shipping and came to Capharnaum, seeking for +Jesus. + +6:25. And when they had found him on that other side of the sea, they +said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? + +6:26. Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek +me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the +loaves and were filled. + +6:27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which +endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For +him hath God, the Father, sealed. + +6:28. They said therefore unto him: What shall we do, that we may work +the works of God? + +6:29. Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that +you believe in him whom he hath sent. + +6:30. They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew +that we may see and may believe thee? What dost thou work? + +6:31. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He +gave them bread from heaven to eat. + +6:32. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you +not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from +heaven. + +6:33. For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and +giveth life to the world. + +6:34. They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread. + +6:35. And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that cometh to +me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst. + +6:36. But I said unto you that you also have seen me, and you believe +not. + +6:37. All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that +cometh to me, I will not cast out. + +6:38. Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the +will of him that sent me. + +6:39. Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that +he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again +in the last day. + +6:40. And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one +who seeth the Son and believeth in him may have life everlasting. And I +will raise him up in the last day. + +6:41. The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the +living bread which came down from heaven. + +6:42. And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father +and mother we know? How then saith he: I came down from heaven? + +6:43. Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among +yourselves. + +6:44. No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw +him. And I will raise him up in the last day. + +Draw him. . .Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free will under any +necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace. + +6:45. It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of +God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh +forth me. + +6:46. Not that any man hath seen the Father: but he who is of God, he +hath seen the Father. + +6:47. Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me hath +everlasting life. + +6:48. I am the bread of life. + +6:49. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead. + +6:50. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man +eat of it, he may not die. + +6:51. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. + +6:52. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the +bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world. + +6:53. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this +man give us his flesh to eat? + +6:54. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you +eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have +life in you. + +Except you eat--and drink, etc. . .To receive the body and blood of +Christ, is a divine precept, insinuated in this text; which the +faithful fulfil, though they receive but in one kind; because in one +kind they receive both body and blood, which cannot be separated from +each other. Hence, life eternal is here promised to the worthy +receiving, though but in one kind. Ver. 52. If any man eat of this +bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my +flesh for the life of the world. Ver. 58. He that eateth me, the same +also shall live by me. Ver. 59. He that eateth this bread, shall liver +for ever. + +6:55. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting +life: and I will raise him up in the last day. + +6:56. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. + +6:57. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and +I in him. + +6:58. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he +that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. + +6:59. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers +did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for +ever. + +6:60. These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum. + +6:61. Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is +hard; and who can hear it? + +6:62. But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at +this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you? + +6:63. If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was +before? + +If then you shall see, etc. . .Christ by mentioning his ascension, by +this instance of his power and divinity, would confirm the truth of +what he had before asserted; and at the same time correct their gross +apprehension of eating his flesh, and drinking his blood, in a vulgar +and carnal manner, by letting them know he should take his whole body +living with him to heaven; and consequently not suffer it to be as they +supposed, divided, mangled, and consumed upon earth. + +6:64. It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. +The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. + +The flesh profiteth nothing. . .Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in +the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit +nothing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's natural and +carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and +words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of +blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the +blessed sacarament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and +divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ's flesh had profitedus +nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in us +nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh +for us. Are spirit and life. . .By proposing to you a heavenly +sacrament, in which you shall receive, in a wonderful manner, spirit, +grace, and life, in its very fountain. + +6:65. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from +the beginning who they were that did not believe and who he was that +would betray him. + +6:66. And he said: Therefore did I say to you that no man can come to +me, unless it be given him by my Father. + +6:67. After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more +with him. + +6:68. Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away? + +6:69. And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou +hast the words of eternal life. + +6:70. And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ, the +Son of God. + +6:71. Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you +is a devil. + +6:72. Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was +about to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve. + + + +John Chapter 7 + + +Christ goes up to the feast of the tabernacles. He teaches in the +temple. + +7:1. After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk +in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. + +7:2. Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand. + +7:3. And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea, +that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost. + +7:4. For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself +seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself +to the world. + +7:5. For neither did his brethren believe in him. + +7:6. Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is +always ready. + +7:7. The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give +testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil, + +7:8. Go you up to this festival day: but I go not up to this festival +day, because my time is not accomplished. + +7:9. When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee. + +7:10. But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the +feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret. + +7:11. The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where +is he? + +7:12. And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. +For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth +the people. + +7:13. Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews. + +7:14. Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple +and taught. + +7:15. And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, +having never learned? + +7:16. Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his +that sent me. + +7:17. If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the +doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. + +7:18. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that +seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no +injustice in him. + +7:19. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the +law? + +7:20. Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou +hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee? + +7:21. Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you +all wonder. + +7:22. Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of +Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a +man. + +7:23. If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of +Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the +whole man on the sabbath day? + +7:24. Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment. + +7:25. Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek +to kill? + +7:26. And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have +the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? + +7:27. But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, +no man knoweth, whence he is. + +7:28. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You +both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: +but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. + +7:29. I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me. + +7:30. They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on +him, because his hour was not yet come. + +7:31. But of the people many believed in him and said: When the Christ +cometh, shall he do more miracles than this man doth? + +7:32. The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning +him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him. + +7:33. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: +and then I go to him that sent me. + +7:34. You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither +you cannot come. + +7:35. The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, +that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the +Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? + +7:36. What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and +shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come? + +7:37. And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and +cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. + +7:38. He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly +shall flow rivers of living water. + +7:39. Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who +believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was +not yet glorified. + +7:40. Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of +his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. + +7:41. Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ +come out of Galilee? + +7:42. Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of +David and from Bethlehem the town where David was? + +7:43. So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. + +7:44. And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid +hands upon him. + +7:45. The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the +Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? + +7:46. The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man. + +7:47. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? + +7:48. Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? + +7:49. But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed. + +7:50. Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one +of them): + +7:51. Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know +what he doth? + +7:52. They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search +the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not. + +7:53. And every man returned to his own house. + + + +John Chapter 8 + + +The woman taken in adultery. Christ justifies his doctrine. + +8:1. And Jesus went unto mount Olivet. + +8:2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all +the people came to him. And sitting down he taught them. + +8:3. And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in +adultery: and they set her in the midst, + +8:4. And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in +adultery. + +8:5. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what +sayest thou? + +8:6. And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But +Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground. + +8:7. When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and +said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a +stone at her. + +8:8. And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground. + +8:9. But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the +eldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst. + +8:10. Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they +that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee? + +8:11. Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn +thee. Go, and now sin no more. + +8:12. Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of +the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have +the light of life. + +8:13. The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of +thyself. Thy testimony is not true. + +8:14. Jesus answered and said to them: Although I give testimony of +myself, my testimony is true: for I know whence I came and whither I +go. + +8:15. You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man. + +8:16. And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone, +but I and the Father that sent me. + +8:17. And in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is +true. + +8:18. I am one that give testimony of myself: and the Father that sent +me giveth testimony of me. + +8:19. They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: +Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you +would know my Father also. + +8:20. These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: +and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. + +8:21. Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me. +And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come. + +8:22. The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: +Whither I go you cannot come? + +8:23. And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You +are of this world: I am not of this world. + +8:24. Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if +you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin. + +8:25. They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: +The beginning, who also speak unto you. + +8:26. Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent +me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in +the world. + +8:27. And they understood not that he called God his Father. + +8:28. Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the +Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of +myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak. + +8:29. And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. +For I do always the things that please him. + +8:30. When he spoke these things, many believed in him. + +8:31. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue +in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed. + +8:32. And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free. + +8:33. They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham: and we have never +been slaves to any man. How sayest thou: You shall be free? + +8:34. Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever +committeth sin is the servant of sin. + +8:35. Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son +abideth for ever. + +8:36. If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free +indeed. + +8:37. I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill +me, because my word hath no place in you. + +8:38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the +things that you have seen with your father. + +8:39. They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith +them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham. + +8:40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to +you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not. + +8:41. You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We +are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. + +8:42. Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would +indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of +myself: but he sent me. + +8:43. Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. + +8:44. You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father +you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in +the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he +speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. + +8:45. But if I say the truth, you believe me not. + +8:46. Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, +why do you not believe me: + +8:47. He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear +them not, because you are not of God. + +8:48. The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well +that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil? + +8:49. Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And +you have dishonoured me. + +8:50. But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and +judgeth. + +8:51. Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not +see death for ever. + +8:52. The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. +Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my +word, he shall not taste death for ever. + +8:53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the +prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself? + +8:54. Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is +my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God. + +8:55. And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say +that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him +and do keep his word. + +8:56. Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it +and was glad. + +8:57. The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old. +And hast thou seen Abraham? + +8:58. Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was +made, I AM. + +8:59. They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid +himself and went out of the temple. + + + +John Chapter 9 + + +He gives sight to the man born blind. + +9:1. And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth. + +9:2. And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or +his parents, that he should be born blind? + +9:3. Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but +that the works of God should be made manifest in him. + +9:4. I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the +night cometh, when no man can work. + +9:5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. + +9:6. When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay +of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes, + +9:7. And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is +interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing. + +9:8. The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that +he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: +This is he. + +9:9. But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he. + +9:10. They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened? + +9:11. He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed +my eyes and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe and wash. And I went: +I washed: and I see. + +9:12. And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not. + +9:13. They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees. + +9:14. Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his +eyes. + +9:15. Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his +sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: +and I see. + +9:16. Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who +keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a +sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. + +9:17. They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of +him that hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet. + +9:18. The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been +blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him +that had received his sight, + +9:19. And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born +blind? How then doth he now see? + +9:20. His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son +and that he was born blind: + +9:21. But how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, +we know not. Ask himself: he is of age: Let him speak for himself. + +9:22. These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for +the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should +confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. + +9:23. Therefore did his parents say: He is of age. Ask himself. + +9:24. They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said +to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. + +9:25. He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not. One +thing I know, that whereas I was blind. now I see. + +9:26. They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy +eyes? + +9:27. He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard. +Why would you hear it again? Will you also become his disciples? + +9:28. They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we +are the disciples of Moses. + +9:29. We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not +from whence he is. + +9:30. The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful +thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes. + +9:31. Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a +server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth. + +9:32. From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any +man hath opened the eyes of one born blind. + +9:33. Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything. + +9:34. They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and +dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. + +9:35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found +him, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God? + +9:36. He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in +him? + +9:37. And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that +talketh with thee. + +9:38. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him. + +9:39. And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they +who see not may see; and they who see may become blind. + +I am come, etc. . .Not that Christ came for that end, that any one +should be made blind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his coming, +and by their not receiving him, brought upon themselves this judgment +of blindness. + +9:40. And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they +said unto him: Are we also blind? + +9:41. Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: +but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth. + +If you were blind, etc. . .If you were invincibly ignorant, and had +neither read the scriptures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be +guilty of the sin of infidelity: but now, as you boast of your +knowledge of the scriptures, you are inexcusable. + + + +John Chapter 10 + + +Christ is the door and the good shepherd. He and his Father are one. + +10:1. Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into +the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a +robber. + +10:2. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. + +10:3. To him the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice. And he +calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out. + +10:4. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and +the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. + +10:5. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they +know not the voice of strangers. + +10:6. This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he +spoke. + +10:7. Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I +am the door of the sheep. + +10:8. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and +the sheep heard them not. + +10:9. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and +he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures. + +10:10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to +destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more +abundantly. + +10:11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for +his sheep. + +10:12. But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the +sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: +and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep, + +10:13. And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath +no care for the sheep. + +10:14. I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me. + +10:15. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down +my life for my sheep. + +10:16. And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I +must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold +and one shepherd. + +10:17. Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, +that I may take it again. + +10:18. No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And +I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This +commandment have I received of my Father. + +10:19. A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words. + +10:20. And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you +him? + +10:21. Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. +Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? + +10:22. And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was +winter. + +10:23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. + +10:24. The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How +long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell +us plainly. + +10:25. Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the +works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me. + +10:26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. + +10:27. My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me. + +10:28. And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for +ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand. + +10:29. That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no +one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father. + +10:30. I and the Father are one. + +I and the Father are one. . .That is, one divine nature, but two +distinct persons. + +10:31. The Jews then took up stones to stone him. + +10:32. Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my +Father. For which of those works do you stone me? + +10:33. The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but +for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God. + +10:34. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you +are gods? + +10:35. If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and +the scripture cannot be broken: + +10:36. Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into +the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God? + +10:37. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. + +10:38. But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: +that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the +Father. + +10:39. They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their +hands. + +10:40. And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John +was baptizing first. And there he abode. + +10:41. And many resorted to him: and they said: John indeed did no +sign. + +10:42. But all things whatsoever John said of this man were true. And +many believed n him. + + + +John Chapter 11 + + +Christ raises Lazarus to life. The rulers resolve to put him to death. + +11:1. Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of +the town of Mary and of Martha her sister. + +11:2. (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped +his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.) + +11:3. His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom +thou lovest is sick. + +11:4. And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto +death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified +by it. + +11:5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus. + +11:6. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained +in the same place two days. + +11:7. Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea +again. + +11:8. The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone +thee. And goest thou thither again? + +11:9. Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man +walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this +world: + +11:10. But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is +not in him. + +11:11. These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus +our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. + +11:12. His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do +well. + +11:13. But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of +the repose of sleep. + +11:14. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead. + +11:15. And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you +may believe. But, let us go to him. + +11:16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow +disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him. + +11:17. Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days +already in the grave. + +11:18. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.) + +11:19. And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort +them concerning their brother. + +11:20. Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went +to meet him: but Mary sat at home. + +11:21. Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, +my brother had not died. + +11:22. But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God +will give it thee. + +11:23. Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again. + +11:24. Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the +resurrection at the last day. + +11:25. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that +believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: + +11:26. And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for +ever. Believest thou this? + +11:27. She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art +Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world. + +11:28. And when she had said these things, she went and called her +sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee. + +11:29. She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to +him. + +11:30. For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in +that place where Martha had met him. + +11:31. The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house and comforted +her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up speedily and went out, +followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there. + +11:32. When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she +fell down at his feet and saith to him. Lord, if thou hadst been here, +my brother had not died. + +11:33. Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that +were come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and troubled himself, + +11:34. And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come +and see. + +11:35. And Jesus wept. + +11:36. The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him. + +11:37. But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the +man born blind have caused that this man should not die? + +11:38. Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the +sepulchre. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it. + +11:39. Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that +was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now +of four days. + +11:40. Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee that if thou believe, +thou shalt see the glory of God? + +11:41. They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his +eyes, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me. + +11:42. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the +people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou +hast sent me. + +11:43. When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: +Lazarus, come forth. + +11:44. And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and +hands with winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin. +Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go. + +11:45. Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha and +had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him. + +11:46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things +that Jesus had done. + +11:47. The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a +council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? + +11:48. If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans +will come, and take away our place and nation. + +11:49. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, +said to them: You know nothing. + +11:50. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one +man should die for the people and that the whole nation perish not. + +11:51. And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of +that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation. + +11:52. And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the +children of God that were dispersed. + +11:53. From that day therefore they devised to put him to death. + +11:54. Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews: but he +went into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem. +And there he abode with his disciples. + +11:55. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country +went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves. + +11:56. They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with +another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to +the festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a +commandment that, if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that +they might apprehend him. + + + +John Chapter 12 + + +The anointing of Christ's feet. His riding into Jerusalem upon an ass. +A voice from heaven. + +12:1. Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, +where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. + +12:2. And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus +was one of them that were at table with him. + +12:3. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of +great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her +hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. + +12:4. Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to +betray him, said: + +12:5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given +to the poor? + +12:6. Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because +he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put +therein. + +12:7. Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against +the day of my burial. + +12:8. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not +always. + +See the annotation of St. Matt. 26. 11. + +12:9. A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; +and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see +Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. + +12:10. But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also: + +12:11. Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and +believed in Jesus. + +12:12. And on the next day, a great multitude that was come to the +festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, + +12:13. Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried +Hosanna. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of +Israel. + +12:14. And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it, as it is written: + +12:15. Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on +an ass's colt. + +12:16. These things his disciples did not know at the first: but when +Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were +written of him and that they had done these things to him. + +12:17. The multitude therefore gave testimony, which was with him, when +he called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead. + +12:18. For which reason also the people came to meet him, because they +heard that he had done this miracle. + +12:19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Do you see that +we prevail nothing? Behold, the whole world is gone after him. + +12:20. Now there were certain Gentiles among them, who came up to adore +on the festival day. + +12:21. These therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, +and desired him, saying: Sir, we would see Jesus. + +12:22. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. Again Andrew and Philip told +Jesus. + +12:23. But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son +of man should be glorified. + +12:24. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into +the ground die, + +12:25. Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much +fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his +life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal. + +12:26. If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, +there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my +Father honour. + +12:27. Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me +from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour. + +12:28. Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I +have both glorified it and will glorify it again. + +12:29. The multitude therefore that stood and heard said that it +thundered. Others said: An angel spoke to him. + +12:30. Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of me, but +for your sakes. + +12:31. Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this +world be cast out. + +12:32. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to +myself. + +12:33. (Now this he said, signifying what death he should die.) + +12:34. The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that +Christ abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be +lifted up? Who is this Son of man? + +12:35. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is +among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake +you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth. + +12:36. Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be +the children of light. These things Jesus spoke: and he went away and +hid himself from them. + +12:37. And whereas he had done so many miracles before them, they +believed not in him: + +12:38. That the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which +he said: Lord, who hath believed our hearing? And to whom hath the arm +of the Lord been revealed? + +12:39. Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again: + +They could not believe. . .Because they would not, saith St. Augustine, +Tract. 33, in Joan. See the annotation, St. Mark 4. 12. + +12:40. He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they +should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be +converted: and I should heal them. + +12:41. These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of +him. + +12:42. However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because +of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast +out of the synagogue. + +12:43. For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God. + +12:44. But Jesus cried and said: He that believeth in me doth not +believe in me, but in him that sent me. + +12:45. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. + +12:46. I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in +me may not remain in darkness. + +12:47. And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge +him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. + +12:48. He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that +judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in +the last day. + +12:49. For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he +gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak. + +12:50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things +therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak. + + + +John Chapter 13 + + +Christ washes his disciples' feet. The treason of Judas. The new +commandment of love. + +13:1. Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour +was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having +loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end. + +Before the festival day of the pasch. . .This was the fourth and last +pasch of the ministry of Christ, and according to the common +computation, was in the thirty-third year of our Lord: and in the year +of the world 4036. Some chronologers are of opinion that our Saviour +suffered in the thirty-seventh year of his age: but these different +opinions on this subject are of no consequence. + +13:2. And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart +of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him), + +13:3. Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands +and that he came from God and goeth to God, + +13:4. He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and, having +taken a towel, girded himself. + +13:5. After that, he putteth water into a basin and began to wash the +feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was +girded. + +13:6. He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, +dost thou wash my feet? + +13:7. Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now; +but thou shalt know hereafter. + +13:8. Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet, Jesus answered +him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me. + +13:9. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my +hands and my head. + +13:10. Jesus saith to him: He that is washed needeth not but to wash +his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all. + +13:11. For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said: +You are not all clean. + +13:12. Then after he had washed their feet and taken his garments, +being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to +you? + +13:13. You call me Master and Lord. And you say well: for so I am. + +13:14. If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you +also ought to wash one another's feet. + +13:15. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so +you do also. + +13:16. Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his +lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him. + +13:17. If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them. + +13:18. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the +scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up +his heel against me, + +13:19. At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it +shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he. + +13:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send +receiveth me: and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. + +13:21. When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit; and +he testified, and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you shall +betray me. + +13:22. The disciples therefore looked one upon another, doubting of +whom he spoke. + +13:23. Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom +Jesus loved. + +13:24. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him and said to him: Who is it +of whom he speaketh? + +13:25. He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him: +Lord, who is it? + +13:26. Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall reach bread dipped. And +when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of +Simon. + +13:27. And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to +him: That which thou dost, do quickly. + +That which thou dost, do quickly. . .It is not a license, much less a +command, to go about his treason: but a signification to him that +Christ would not hinder or resist what he was about, do it as soon as +he pleased: but was both ready and desirous to suffer for our +redemption. + +13:28. Now no man at the table knew to what purpose he said this unto +him. + +13:29. For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had +said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival +day: or that he should give something to the poor. + +13:30. He therefore, having received the morsel, went out immediately. +And it was night. + +13:31. When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of +man glorified; and God is glorified in him. + +13:32. If God be glorified in him, God also will glorify him in +himself: and immediately will he glorify him. + +13:33. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall +seek me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I +say to you now. + +13:34. A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as +I have loved you, that you also love one another. + +13:35. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you +have love one for another. + +13:36. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus +answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now: but thou shalt +follow hereafter. + +13:37. Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay +down my life for thee. + +13:38. Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen, +amen, I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice. + + + +John Chapter 14 + + +Christ's discourse after his last supper. + +14:1. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also +in me. + +14:2. In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would +have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. + +14:3. And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again +and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be. + +14:4. And whither I go you know: and the way you know. + +14:5. Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And +how can we know the way? + +14:6. Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No +man cometh to the Father, but by me. + +14:7. If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father +also: and from henceforth you shall know him. And you have seen him. + +14:8. Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father; and it is enough +for us. + +14:9. Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have +you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How +sayest thou: Shew us the Father? + +14:10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? +The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father +who abideth in me, he doth the works. + +14:11. Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? + +14:12. Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen, I say to +you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: +and greater than these shall he do. + +14:13. Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the +Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in +the Son. + +14:14. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do. + +14:15. If you love me, keep my commandments. + +14:16. And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another +Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever: + +Paraclete. . .That is, a comforter: or also an advocate; inasmuch as by +inspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. For +ever. . .Hence it is evident that this Spirit of Truth was not only +promised to the persons of the apostles, but also to their successors +through all generations. + +14:17. The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it +seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he +shall abide with you and shall be in you. + +14:18. I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you. + +14:19. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see +me: because I live, and you shall live. + +14:20. In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in +me, and I in you. + +14:21. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that +loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I +will love him and will manifest myself to him. + +14:22. Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it that thou +wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? + +14:23. Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep +my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will +make our abode with him. + +14:24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which +you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me. + +14:25. These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you. + +14:26. But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in +my name, he will teach you all things and bring all things to your +mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you. + +Teach you all things. . .Here the Holy Ghost is promised to the apostles +and their successors, particularly, in order to teach them all truth, +and to preserve them from error. + +14:27. Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the +world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor +let it be afraid. + +14:28. You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto +you. If you loved me you would indeed be glad, because I go to the +Father: for the Father is greater than I. + +For the Father is greater than I. . .It is evident, that Christ our Lord +speaks here of himself as he is made man: for as God he is equal to the +Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty of understanding the meaning of +these words will vanish, when the relative circumstances of the text +here are considered: for Christ being at this time shortly to suffer +death, signified to his apostles his human nature by these very words: +for as God he could not die. And therefore as he was both God and man, +it must follow that according to his humanity he was to die, which the +apostles were soon to see and believe, as he expresses, ver. 29. And +now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to +pass, you may believe. + +14:29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it +shall come to pass, you may believe. + +14:30. I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of +this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing. + +14:31. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the +Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence. + + + +John Chapter 15 + + +A continuation of Christ's discourse to his disciples. + +15:1. I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman. + +15:2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and +every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth +more fruit. + +15:3. Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to +you. + +15:4. Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of +itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you +abide in me. + +15:5. I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in +him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. + +15:6. If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch +and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the +fire: and he burneth. + +15:7. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask +whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you. + +15:8. In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much +fruit and become my disciples. + +15:9. As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my +love. + +15:10. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I +also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love. + +15:11. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, +and your joy may be filled. + +15:12. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have +loved you. + +15:13. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life +for his friends. + +15:14. You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. + +15:15. I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not +what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, +whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. + +15:16. You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have +appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and +your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father +in my name, he may give it you. + +15:17. These things I command you, that you love one another. + +15:18. If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. + +15:19. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but +because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the +world, therefore the world hateth you. + +15:20. Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater +than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute +you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. + +15:21. But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: +because they know not him that sent me. + +15:22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: +but now they have no excuse for their sin. + +15:23. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. + +15:24. If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath +done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated +both me and my Father. + +15:25. But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their +law: they hated me without cause. + +15:26. But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the +Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall +give testimony of me. + +Whom I will send. . .This proves, against the modern Greeks, that the +Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Son, as well as from the Father: +otherwise he could not be sent by the Son. + +15:27. And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the +beginning. + + + +John Chapter 16 + + +The conclusion of Christ's last discourse to his disciples. + +16:1. These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you +that you may not be scandalized. + +16:2. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, +that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God. + +16:3. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known +the Father nor me. + +16:4. But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, +you may remember that I told you of them. + +16:5. But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was +with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: +Whither goest thou? + +16:6. But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled +your heart. + +16:7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For +if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will +send him to you. + +16:8. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin and of +justice and of judgment. + +He will convince the world of sin, etc. . .The Holy Ghost, by his coming +brought over many thousands, first, to a sense of their sin in not +believing in Christ. Secondly, to a conviction of the justice of +Christ, now sitting at the right hand of his Father. And thirdly, to a +right apprehension of the judgment prepared for them that choose to +follow Satan, who is already judged and condemned. + +16:9. Of sin: because they believed not in me. + +16:10. And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me +no longer. + +16:11. And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already +judged. + +16:12. I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them +now. + +16:13. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all +truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he +shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall +shew you. + +Will teach you all truth. . .See the annotation on chap. 14. ver. 26. + +16:14. He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall +shew it to you. + +16:15. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said +that he shall receive of me and shew it to you. + +16:16. A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little +while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father. + +16:17. Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this +that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and +again a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the +Father? + +16:18. They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? +We know not what he speaketh. + +16:19. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to +them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little +while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you +shall see me? + +16:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but +the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your +sorrow shall be turned into joy. + +16:21. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is +come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no +more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. + +16:22. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and +your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you. + +16:23. And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I +say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it +you. + +16:24. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you +shall receive; that your joy may be full. + +16:25. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh +when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you +plainly of the Father. + +16:26. In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that +I will ask the Father for you. + +16:27. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and +have believed that I came out from God. + +16:28. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I +leave the world and I go to the Father. + +16:29. His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and +speakest no proverb. + +16:30. Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not +that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth +from God. + +16:31. Jesus answered them: Do you now believe? + +16:32. Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be +scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am +not alone, because the Father is with me. + +16:33. These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have +peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I +have overcome the world. + + + +John Chapter 17 + + +Christ's prayer for his disciples. + +17:1. These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he +said: the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. + +17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give +eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. + +17:3. Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true +God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. + +17:4. I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work +which thou gavest me to do. + +17:5. And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory +which I had, before the world was, with thee. + +17:6. I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out +of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they +have kept thy word. + +17:7. Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are +from thee: + +17:8. Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And +they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out +from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me. + +17:9. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou +hast given me: because they are thine. + +17:10. And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am +glorified in them. + +17:11. And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I +come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given +me: that they may be one, as we also are. + +17:12. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou +gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of +perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled. + +17:13. And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, +that they may have my joy filled in themselves. + +17:14. I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: +because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. + +17:15. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but +that thou shouldst keep them from evil. + +17:16. They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. + +17:17. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. + +17:18. As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into +the world. + +17:19. And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be +sanctified in truth. + +17:20. And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through +their word shall believe in me. + +17:21. That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; +that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou +hast sent me. + +17:22. And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: +that, they may be one, as we also are one. + +17:23. I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: +and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as +thou hast also loved me. + +17:24. Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given +me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, +because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world. + +17:25. Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known +thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me. + +17:26. And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known: +that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in +them. + + + +John Chapter 18 + + +The history of the passion of Christ. + +18:1. When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his +disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which +he entered with his disciples. + +18:2. And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: because Jesus +had often resorted thither together with his disciples. + +18:3. Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants +from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns +and torches and weapons. + +18:4. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, +went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye? + +18:5. They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am +he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them. + +18:6. As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went +backward and fell to the ground. + +18:7. Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said: +Jesus of Nazareth. + +18:8. Jesus answered: I have told you that I am he. If therefore you +seek me, let these go their way, + +18:9. That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou +hast given me, I have not lost any one. + +18:10. Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the servant +of the high priest and cut off his right ear. And the name of thee +servant was Malchus. + +18:11. Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the +scabbard. The chalice which my father hath given me, shall I not drink +it? + +18:12. Then the band and the tribune and the servants of the Jews took +Jesus and bound him. + +18:13. And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law +to Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year. + +18:14. Now Caiphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews: That +it was expedient that one man should die for the people. + +18:15. And Simon Peter followed Jesus: and so did another disciple. And +that disciple was known to the high priest and went in with Jesus into +the court of the high priest. + +18:16. But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple +therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the +portress and brought in Peter. + +18:17. The maid therefore that was portress saith to Peter: Art not +thou also one of this man's disciple? He saith I am not. + +18:18. Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because +it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also, +standing and warming himself. + +18:19. The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples and of +his doctrine. + +18:20. Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have +always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews +resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing. + +18:21. Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken +unto them. Behold they know what things I have said. + +18:22. And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing +by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so? + +18:23. Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the +evil; but if well, why strikest thou me? + +18:24. And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest. + +18:25. And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said +therefore to him: Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it +and said: I am not. + +18:26. One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose +ear Peter cut off) saith to him: Did not I see thee in the garden with +him? + +18:27. Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew. + +18:28. Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it +was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be +defiled, but that they might eat the pasch. + +18:29. Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation +bring you against this man? + +18:30. They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we +would not have delivered him up to thee. + +18:31. Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him +according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful +for us to put any man to death. + +18:32. That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, +signifying what death he should die. + +18:33. Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and +said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? + +18:34. Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have +others told it thee of me? + +18:35. Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief +priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done? + +18:36. Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom +were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should +not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence. + +18:37. Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus +answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for +this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. +Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. + +18:38. Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he +went out again to the Jews and saith to them: I find no cause in him. + +18:39. But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the +Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the +Jews? + +18:40. Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. +Now Barabbas was a robber. + + + +John Chapter 19 + + +The continuation of the history of the Passion of Christ. + +19:1. Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. + +19:2. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his +head: and they put on him a purple garment. + +19:3. And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the Jews. And they +gave him blows. + +19:4. Pilate therefore went forth again and saith to them: Behold, I +bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in +him. + +19:5. (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the +purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man. + +19:6. When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him, +they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: +Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him. + +19:7. The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he +ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. + +19:8. When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more. + +19:9. And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence +art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. + +19:10. Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest +thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release +thee? + +19:11. Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, +unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered +me to thee hath the greater sin. + +19:12. And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews +cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's +friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. + +19:13. Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth +and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called +Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha. + +19:14. And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and +he saith to the Jews: Behold your king. + +The parasceve of the pasch. . .That is, the day before the paschal +sabbath. The eve of every sabbath was called the parasceve, or day of +preparation. But this was the eve of a high sabbath, viz., that which +fell in the paschal week. + +19:15. But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. +Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests +answered: We have no king but Caesar. + +19:16. Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And +they took Jesus and led him forth. + +19:17. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is +called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha. + +19:18. Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each +side, and Jesus in the midst. + +19:19. And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And +the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. + +19:20. This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the +place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city. And it was +written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. + +19:21. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not: +The King of the Jews. But that he said: I am the King of the Jews. + +19:22. Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written. + +19:23. The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his +garments, (and they made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also +his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. + +19:24. They said then one to another: Let us not cut it but let us cast +lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, +saying: They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture +they have cast lots. And the soldiers indeed did these things. + +19:25. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his +mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. + +19:26. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple +standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. + +19:27. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And +from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. + +19:28. Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, +that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst. + +19:29. Now there was a vessel set there, full of vinegar. And they, +putting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth. + +19:30. Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is +consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. + +19:31. Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies +might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a +great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: +and that they might be taken away. + +19:32. The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the +first, and of the other that was crucified with him. + +19:33. But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was +already dead, they did not break his legs. + +19:34. But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and +immediately there came out blood and water. + +19:35. And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is +true. And he knoweth that he saith true: that you also may believe. + +19:36. For these things were done that the scripture might be +fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. + +19:37. And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom +they pierced. + +19:38. And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a +disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate +that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He +came therefore and took away the body of Jesus. + +19:39. And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by +night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound +weight. + +19:40. They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen +cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. + +19:41. Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden: and +in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid. + +19:42. There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they +laid Jesus: because the sepulchre was nigh at hand. + + + +John Chapter 20 + + +Christ's resurrection and manifestation to his disciples. + +20:1. And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early, +when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre: and she saw the stone taken +away from the sepulchre. + +20:2. She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other +disciple whom Jesus loved and saith to them: They have taken away the +Lord out of the sepulchre: and we know not where they have laid him. + +20:3. Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple: and they came +to the sepulchre. + +20:4. And they both ran together: and that other disciple did outrun +Peter and came first to the sepulchre. + +20:5. And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet +he went not in. + +20:6. Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the +sepulchre: and saw the linen cloths lying, + +20:7. And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the +linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place. + +20:8. Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the +sepulchre: and he saw and believed. + +20:9. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again +from the dead. + +20:10. The disciples therefore departed again to their home. + +20:11. But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was +weeping, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, + +20:12. And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and +one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. + +20:13. They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: +Because they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have +laid him. + +20:14. When she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus +standing: and she knew not that it was Jesus. + +20:15. Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? +She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast +taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him +away. + +20:16. Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni +(which is to say, Master). + +20:17. Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended +to my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my +Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God. + +20:18. Mary Magdalen cometh and telleth the disciples: I have seen the +Lord; and these things he said to me. + +20:19. Now when it was late the same day, the first of the week, and +the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for +fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them: +Peace be to you. + +The doors were shut. . .The same power which could bring Christ's whole +body, entire in all its dimensions, through the doors, can without the +least question make the same body really present in the sacrament; +though both the one and the other be above our comprehension. + +20:20. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his +side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord. + +20:21. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father +hath sent me, I also send you. + +20:22. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: +Receive ye the Holy Ghost. + +20:23. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose +sins you shall retain, they are retained. + +Whose sins, etc. . .See here the commission, stamped by the broad seal +of heaven, by virtue of which the pastors of Christ's church absolve +repenting sinners upon their confession. + +20:24. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not +with them when Jesus came. + +20:25. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the +Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of +the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand +into his side, I will not believe. + +20:26. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and +Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the +midst and said: Peace be to you. + +20:27. Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither and see my +hands. And bring hither the hand and put it into my side. And be not +faithless, but believing. + +20:28. Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord and my God. + +20:29. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast +believed: blessed are they that have not seen and have believed. + +20:30. Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his disciples, +which are not written in this book. + +20:31. But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the +Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his +name. + + + +John Chapter 21 + + +Christ manifests himself to his disciples by the sea side and gives +Peter the charge of his sheep. + +21:1. After this, Jesus shewed himself to the disciples at the sea of +Tiberias. And he shewed himself after this manner. + +21:2. There were together: Simon Peter and Thomas, who is called +Didymus, and Nathanael, who was of Cana of Galilee, and the sons of +Zebedee and two others of his disciples. + +21:3. Simon Peter saith to them: I go a fishing. They say to him: We +also come with thee. And they went forth and entered into the ship: and +that night they caught nothing. + +21:4. But when the morning was come, Jesus stood on the shore: yet the +disciples knew not that it was Jesus. + +21:5. Jesus therefore said to them: Children, have you any meat? They +answered him: No. + +21:6. He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and +you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw +it, for the multitude of fishes. + +21:7. That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the +Lord. Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat +about him (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea. + +21:8. But the other disciples came in the ship (for they were not far +from the land, but as it were two hundred cubits) dragging the net with +fishes. + +21:9. As soon then as they came to land they saw hot coals lying, and a +fish laid thereon, and bread. + +21:10. Jesus saith to them: Bring hither of the fishes which you have +now caught. + +21:11. Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of great +fishes, one hundred and fifty-three. And although there were so many, +the net was not broken. + +21:12. Jesus saith to them: Come and dine. And none of them who were at +meat, durst ask him: Who art thou? Knowing that it was the Lord. + +21:13. And Jesus cometh and taketh bread and giveth them: and fish in +like manner. + +21:14. This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to his +disciples, after he was risen from the dead. + +21:15. When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: +Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: +Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my +lambs. + +21:16. He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He +saith to him: yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to +him: Feed my lambs. + +21:17. He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou +me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest +thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou +knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep. + +Feed my sheep. . .Our Lord had promised the spiritual supremacy to St. +Peter; St. Matt. 16. 19; and here he fulfils that promise, by charging +him with the superintendency of all his sheep, without exception; and +consequently of his whole flock, that is, of his own church. + +21:18. Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst +gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be +old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee +and lead thee whither thou wouldst not. + +21:19. And this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify +God. And when he had said this, he saith to him: Follow me. + +21:20. Peter turning about, saw that disciple whom Jesus loved +following, who also leaned on his breast at supper and said: Lord, who +is he that shall betray thee? + +21:21. Him therefore when Peter had seen, he saith to Jesus: Lord, and +what shall this man do? + +21:22. Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come, +what is it to thee? Follow thou me. + +21:23. This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that that +disciple should not die. And Jesus did not say to him: He should not +die; but: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee? + +21:24. This is that disciple who giveth testimony of these things and +hath written these things: and we know that his testimony is true. + +21:25. But there are also many other things which Jesus did which, if +they were written every one, the world itself. I think, would not be +able to contain the books that should be written. + + + + +THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES + + + +This Book, which, from the first ages, hath been called, THE ACTS OF +THE APOSTLES, is not to be considered as a history of what was done by +all the Apostles, who were dispersed into different nations; but only a +short view of the first establishment of the Christian Church. A part +of the preaching and action of St. Peter are related in the first +twelve chapters; and a particular account of St. Paul's apostolical +labours in the subsequent chapters. It was written by St. Luke the +Evangelist, and the original in Greek. Its history commences from the +Ascension of Christ our Lord and ends in the year sixty-three, being a +brief account of the Church for the space of about thirty years. + + + +Acts Chapter 1 + + +The ascension of Christ. Matthias is chosen in place of Judas. + +1:1. The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which +Jesus began to do and to teach, + +1:2. Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to +the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. + +1:3. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many +proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom +of God. + +1:4. And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should +not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the +Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth. + +1:5. For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized +with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence. + +1:6. They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, +wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel? + +1:7. But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or +moments, which the Father hath put in his own power: + +1:8. But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, +and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and +Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. + +1:9. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was +raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. + +1:10. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two +men stood by them in white garments. + +1:11. Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to +heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come +as you have seen him going into heaven. + +1:12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called +Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey. + +1:13. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, +where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, +Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude +the brother of James. + +1:14. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the +women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. + +1:15. In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said +(now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty): + +1:16. Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the +Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was +the leader of them that apprehended Jesus: + +1:17. Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. + +1:18. And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, +and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed +out. + +1:19. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that +the same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, +The field of blood. + +1:20. For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let their habitation +become desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And his +bishopric let another take. + +1:21. Wherefore of these men who have companied with us, all the time +that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, + +1:22. Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was +taken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his +resurrection. + +1:23. And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed +Justus, and Matthias. + +1:24. And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all +men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, + +1:25. To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which +Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place. + +1:26. And they gave them lot, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he +was numbered with the eleven apostles. + + + +Acts Chapter 2 + + +The disciples receive the Holy Ghost. Peter's sermon to the people. The +piety of the first converts. + +2:1. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were +all together in one place: + +2:2. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind +coming: and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. + +2:3. And there appeared to them parted tongues, as it were of fire: and +it sat upon every one of them. + +2:4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to +speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to +speak. + +2:5. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of +every nation under heaven. + +2:6. And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and +were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his +own tongue. + +2:7. And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not +all these that speak Galilean? + +2:8. And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were +born? + +2:9. Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, +Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, + +2:10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, +and strangers of Rome, + +2:11. Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard +them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. + +2:12. And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to +another: What meaneth this? + +2:13. But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine. + +2:14. But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and +spoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be +this known to you and with your ears receive my words. + +2:15. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the +third hour of the day: + +2:16. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel: + +2:17. And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord), I +will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your +daughters shall prophesy: and your young men shall see visions, and +your old men shall dream dreams. + +2:18. And upon my servants indeed and upon my handmaids will I pour out +in those days of my spirit: and they shall prophesy. + +2:19. And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the +earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. + +2:20. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, +before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come. + +2:21. And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the +name of the Lord shall be saved. + +2:22. Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man +approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God +did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know: + +2:23. This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and +foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and +slain. + +By the determinate, etc. . .God delivered up his Son; and his Son +delivered up himself, for the love of us, and for the sake of our +salvation; and so Christ's being delivered up was holy, and was God's +own determination. But they who betrayed and crucified him, did +wickedly, following therein their own malice and the instigation of the +devil; not the will and determination of God, who was by no means the +author of their wickedness; though he permitted it; because he could, +and did draw out of it so great a good, viz., the salvation of man. + +2:24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it +was impossible that he should be holden by it. + +Having loosed the sorrow, etc. . .Having overcome the grievous pains of +death and all the power of hell. + +2:25. For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my +face: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved. + +2:26. For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: +moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope. + +2:27. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy +One to see corruption. + +2:28. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me +full of joy with thy countenance. + +2:29. Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch +David: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to +this present say. + +2:30. Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn +to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon +his throne. + +2:31. Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For +neither was he left in hell: neither did his flesh see corruption. + +2:32. This Jesus hath God raised again, whereof all we are witnesses. + +2:33. Being exalted therefore by the right hand of God and having +received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured +forth this which you see and hear. + +2:34. For David ascended not into heaven; but he himself said: The Lord +said to my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand, + +2:35. Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. + +2:36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know most certainly that +God hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have +crucified. + +2:37. Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in +their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What +shall we do, men and brethren? + +2:38. But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of +you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And +you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. + +2:39. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that +are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call. + +2:40. And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, +saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation. + +2:41. They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there +were added in that day about three thousand souls. + +2:42. And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in +the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers. + +2:43. And fear came upon every soul. Many wonders also and signs were +done by the apostles in Jerusalem: and there was great fervor in all. + +2:44. And all they that believed were together and had all things +common. + +2:45. Their possessions and goods they sold and divided them to all, +according as every one had need. + +2:46. And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking +bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and +simplicity of heart: + +2:47. Praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord +increased daily together such as should be saved. + + + +Acts Chapter 3 + + +The miracle upon the lame man, followed by the conversion of many. + +3:1. Now Peter and John went up into the temple at the ninth hour of +prayer. + +3:2. And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: +whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called +Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple. + +3:3. He, when he had seen Peter and John, about to go into the temple, +asked to receive an alms. + +3:4. But Peter with John, fastening his eyes upon him, said: Look upon +us. + +3:5. But he looked earnestly upon them, hoping that he should receive +something of them. + +3:6. But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I +give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk. + +3:7. And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up: and forthwith +his feet and soles received strength. + +3:8. And he leaping up, stood and walked and went in with them into the +temple, walking and leaping and praising God. + +3:9. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. + +3:10. And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the +Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and +amazement at that which had happened to him. + +3:11. And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them, to the +porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. + +3:12. But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, +why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength +or power we had made this man to walk? + +3:13. The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the +God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed +delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he +should be released. + +3:14. But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer +to be granted unto you. + +3:15. But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the +dead: of which we are witnesses. + +3:16. And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and +known, hath his name strengthened. And the faith which is by him hath +given this perfect soundness in the sight of you all. + +3:17. And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as +did also your rulers. + +3:18. But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all +the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. + +3:19. Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be +blotted out. + +3:20. That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence +of the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you, +Jesus Christ. + +3:21. Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the +restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his +holy prophets, from the beginning of the world. + +3:22. For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto +you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all +things whatsoever he shall speak to you. + +3:23. And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet +shall be destroyed from among the people. + +3:24. And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have +spoken, have told of these days. + +3:25. You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which +God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all +the kindreds of the earth be blessed. + +3:26. To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless +you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness. + + + +Acts Chapter 4 + + +Peter and John are apprehended. Their constancy. The church is +increased. + +4:1. And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the +officer of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, + +4:2. Being grieved that they taught the people and preached in Jesus +the resurrection from the dead: + +4:3. And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next +day: for it was now evening. + +4:4. But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number +of the men was made five thousand. + +4:5. And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients +and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. + +4:6. And Annas the high priest and Caiphas and John and Alexander: and +as many as were of the kindred of the high priest. + +4:7. And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power or by +what name, have you done this? + +4:8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes +of the people and ancients, hear. + +4:9. If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the +infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole: + +4:10. Be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by +the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom +God hath raised from the dead, even by him, this man standeth here +before you, whole. + +4:11. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which +is become the head of the corner. + +4:12. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other +name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved. + +4:13. Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that +they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew +them that they had been with Jesus. + +4:14. Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they +could say nothing against it. + +4:15. But they commanded them to go aside out of the council: and they +conferred among themselves, + +4:16. Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath +been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is +manifest: and we cannot deny it. + +4:17. But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us +threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man. + +4:18. And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor +teach in the name of Jesus. + +4:19. But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the +sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye. + +4:20. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. + +4:21. But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might +punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been +done, in that which had come to pass. + +4:22. For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous +cure had been wrought. + +4:23. And being let go, they came to their own company and related all +that the chief priests and ancients had said to them. + +4:24. Who having heard it, with one accord lifted up their voice to God +and said: Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea +and all things that are in them. + +4:25. Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy +servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate +vain things? + +4:26. The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled +together against the Lord and his Christ. + +4:27. For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy +holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, +with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, + +4:28. To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done. + +4:29. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy +servants that with all confidence they may speak thy word, + +4:30. By stretching forth thy hand to cures and signs and wonders, to +be done by the name of thy holy Son, Jesus. + +4:31. And when they had prayed, the place was moved wherein they were +assembled: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke +the word of God with confidence. + +4:32. And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul. +Neither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed was +his own: but all things were common unto them. + +4:33. And with great power did the Apostles give testimony of the +resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord: and great grace was in them all. + +4:34. For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as +were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the +things they sold, + +4:35. And laid it down before the feet of the apostles. And +distribution was made to every one, according as he had need. + +4:36. And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which +is, by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian +born, + +4:37. Having land, sold it and brought the price and laid it at the +feet of the Apostles. + + + +Acts Chapter 5 + + +The judgment of God upon Ananias and Saphira. The apostles are cast +into prison. + +5:1. But a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a +piece of land, + +5:2. And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife +being privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at +the feet of the apostles. + +5:3. But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that +thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price +of the land? + +5:4. Whilst it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was +sold, was it not in thy power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in +thy heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. + +5:5. And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost. +And there came great fear upon all that heard it. + +5:6. And the young men rising up, removed him, and carrying him out, +buried him. + +5:7. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, +not knowing what had happened, came in. + +5:8. And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land +for so much? And she said: Yea, for so much. + +5:9. And Peter said unto her: Why have you agreed together to tempt the +spirit of the Lord? Behold the feet of them who have buried thy husband +are at the door: and they shall carry thee out, + +5:10. Immediately, she fell down before his feet and gave up the ghost. +And the young men coming in found her dead: and carried her out and +buried her by her husband. + +5:11. And there came great fear upon the whole church and upon all that +heard these things. + +5:12. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders +wrought among the people. And they were all with one accord in +Solomon's porch. + +5:13. But of the rest no man durst join himself unto them: but the +people magnified them. + +5:14. And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was +more increased: + +5:15. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and +laid them on beds and couches, that, when Peter came, his shadow at the +least might overshadow any of them and they might be delivered from +their infirmities. + +5:16. And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the +neighbouring cities, bringing sick persons and such as were troubled +with unclean spirits: who were all healed. + +5:17. Then the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him +(which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy. + +5:18. And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common +prison. + +5:19. But an angel of the Lord by night, opening the doors of the +prison and leading them out, said: + +5:20. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words +of this life. + +5:21. Who having heard this, early in the morning, entered into the +temple and taught. And the high priest coming, and they that were with +him, called together the council and all the ancients of the children +of Israel: and they sent to the prison to have them brought. + +5:22. But when the ministers came and opening the prison found them not +there, they returned and told, + +5:23. Saying: The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and +the keepers standing before the door: but opening it, we found no man +within. + +5:24. Now when the officer of the temple and the chief priests heard +these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what would come to +pass. + +5:25. But one came and told them: Behold, the men whom you put in +prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people. + +5:26. Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without +violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. + +5:27. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. +And the high priest asked them, + +5:28. Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in +this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: +and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. + +5:29. But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God +rather than men. + +5:30. The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to +death, hanging him upon a tree. + +5:31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and +Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins. + +5:32. And we are witnesses of these things: and the Holy Ghost, whom +God hath given to all that obey him. + +5:33. When they had heard these things, they were cut to the heart: and +they thought to put them to death. + +5:34. But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a +doctor of the law, respected by all the people, commanded the men to be +put forth a little while. + +5:35. And he said to them: Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves +what you intend to do, as touching these men. + +5:36. For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be +somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined +themselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and +brought to nothing. + +5:37. After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the +enrolling, and drew away the people after him. He also perished: and +all, even as many as consented to him, were dispersed. + +5:38. And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let +them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to +nought: + +5:39. But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be +found even to fight against God. And they consented to him. + +5:40. And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they +charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. +And they dismissed them. + +5:41. And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing +that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of +Jesus. + +5:42. And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to +house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus. + + + +Acts Chapter 6 + + +The ordination of the seven deacons. The zeal of Stephen. + +6:1. And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there +arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their +widows were neglected in the daily ministration. + +Greeks. . .So they called the Jews that were born and brought up in +Greece. + +6:2. Then the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples, +said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve +tables. + +6:3. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good +reputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over +this business. + +6:4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the +ministry of the word. + +6:5. And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose +Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and +Prochorus and Nicanor, and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte +of Antioch. + +6:6. These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed +hands upon them. + +6:7. And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the +disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude +also of the priests obeyed the faith. + +6:8. And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and +signs among the people. + +6:9. Now there arose some, of that which is called the synagogue of the +Libertines and of the Cyrenians and of the Alexandrians and of them +that were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. + +6:10. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that +spoke. + +6:11. Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of +blasphemy against Moses and against God. + +6:12. And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes. +And running together, they took him and brought him to the council. + +6:13. And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not +to speak words against the holy place and the law. + +6:14. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall +destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses +delivered unto us. + +6:15. And all that sat in the council, looking on him, saw his face as +if it had been the face of an angel. + + + +Acts Chapter 7 + + +Stephen's speech before the council. His martyrdom. + +7:1. Then the high priest said: Are these things so? + +7:2. Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory +appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he +dwelt in Charan. + +7:3. And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: +and come into the land which I shall shew thee. + +7:4. Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. +And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this +land, wherein you now dwell. + +7:5. And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. +But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after +him, when as yet he had no child. + +7:6. And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange +country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them +evil four hundred years. + +7:7. And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the +Lord): and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in +this place. + +7:8. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot +Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and +Jacob, the twelve patriarchs. + +7:9. And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God +was with him, + +7:10. And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him +favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he +appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house. + +7:11. Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great +tribulation: and our fathers found no food. + +7:12. But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent +our fathers first. + +7:13. And at the second time, Joseph was known by his brethren: and his +kindred was made known to Pharao. + +7:14. And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his +kindred, seventy-five souls. + +7:15. So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers. + +7:16. And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the +sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, +the son of Sichem. + +7:17. And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had +promised to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt. + +7:18. Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph. + +7:19. This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, +that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be +kept alive. + +7:20. At the same time was Moses born: and he was acceptable to God. +Who was nourished three months in his father's house. + +7:21. And when he was exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and +nourished him for her own son. + +7:22. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and +he was mighty in his words and in his deeds. + +7:23. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to +visit his brethren, the children of Israel. + +7:24. And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him: +and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury. + +7:25. And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand +would save them. But they understood it not. + +7:26. And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were +at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are +brethren. Why hurt you one another? + +7:27. But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, +saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us: + +7:28. What! Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the +Egyptian? + +7:29. And Moses fled upon this word: and was a stranger in the land of +Madian, where he begot two sons. + +7:30. And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the +desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush. + +7:31. And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to +view it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying: + +7:32. I am the God of thy fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac +and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified durst not behold. + +7:33. And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the +place wherein thou standest is holy ground. + +7:34. Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in +Egypt: and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver +them. And now come: and I will send thee into Egypt. + +7:35. This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee +prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand +of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush. + +7:36. He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt +and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years. + +7:37. This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet +shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself. Him shall +you hear. + +7:38. This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the +angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received +the words of life to give unto us. + +7:39. Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their +hearts turned back into Egypt, + +7:40. Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this +Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is +become of him. + +7:41. And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the +idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. + +7:42. And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as +it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and +sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel? + +7:43. And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of +your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will +carry you away beyond Babylon. + +7:44. The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the +desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should +make it according to the form which he had seen. + +7:45. Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the +possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our +fathers, unto the days of David, + +Jesus. . .That is Josue, so called in Greek. + +7:46. Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for +the God of Jacob. + +7:47. But Solomon built him a house, + +7:48. Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the +prophet saith: + +Dwelleth not in houses, etc. . .That is, so as to stand in need of +earthly dwellings, or to be contained, or circumscribed by them. +Though, otherwise by his immense divinity, he is in our houses; and +every where else; and Christ in his humanity dwelt in houses; and is +now on our altars. + +7:49. Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. What house will +you build me (saith the Lord)? Or what is the place of my resting? + +7:50. Hath not my hand made all these things? + +7:51. You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always +resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. + +7:52. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they +have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you +have been now the betrayers and murderers. + +7:53. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have +not kept it. + +7:54. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they +gnashed with their teeth at him. + +7:55. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to +heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of +God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man +standing on the right hand of God. + +7:56. And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and +with one accord ran violently upon him. + +7:57. And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the +witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose +name was Saul. + +7:58. And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive +my spirit. + +7:59. And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: +Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he +fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death. + + + +Acts Chapter 8 + + +Philip converts the Samaritans and baptizes the eunuch. + +8:1. And at that time, there was raised a great persecution against the +church which was at Jerusalem. And they were all dispersed through the +countries of Judea, and Samaria, except the apostles. + +8:2. And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral and made great +mourning over him. + +8:3. But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to +house: and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison. + +8:4. They therefore that were dispersed went about preaching the word +of God. + +8:5. And Philip, going down to the city of Samaria, preached Christ +unto them. + +8:6. And the people with one accord were attentive to those things +which were said by Philip, hearing, and seeing the miracles which he +did. + +8:7. For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud +voice, went out. + +8:8. And many, taken with the palsy, and that were lame, were healed. + +8:9. There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a +certain man named Simon who before had been a magician in that city, +seducing the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one: + +8:10. To whom they all gave ear, from the least to the greatest, +saying: This man is the power of God, which is called great. + +8:11. And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had +bewitched them with his magical practices. + +8:12. But when they had believed Philip preaching of the kingdom of +God, in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and +women. + +8:13. Then Simon himself believed also and, being baptized, he adhered +to Philip. And being astonished, wondered to see the signs and +exceeding great miracles which were done. + +8:14. Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that +Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and +John. + +8:15. Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive +the Holy Ghost. + +8:16. For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only +baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. + +8:17. Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy +Ghost. + +They laid their hands upon them, etc. . .The apostles administered the +sacrament of confirmation, by imposition of hands, and prayer; and the +faithful thereby received the Holy Ghost. Not but they had received the +grace of the Holy Ghost at their baptism: yet not that plenitude of +grace and those spiritual gifts which they afterwards received from +bishops in the sacrament of confirmation, which strengthened them to +profess their faith publicly. + +8:18. And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the +apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, + +8:19. Saying: Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I shall lay +my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said to him: + +8:20. Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast +thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. + +8:21. Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not +right in the sight of God. + +8:22. Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness: and pray to God, +that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee. + +8:23. For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of +iniquity. + +8:24. Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for me to the Lord that none +of these things which you have spoken may come upon me. + +8:25. And they indeed, having testified and preached the word of the +Lord, returned to Jerusalem: and preached the gospel to many countries +of the Samaritans. + +8:26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, go +towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza: +this is desert. + +8:27. And rising up, he went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, +of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had +charge over all her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to adore. + +8:28. And he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading Isaias +the prophet. + +8:29. And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near and join thyself to this +chariot. + +8:30. And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. +And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest? + +8:31. Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired +Philip that he would come up and sit with him. + +8:32. And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He +was led as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb without voice +before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth. + +8:33. In humility his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall +declare, for his life shall be taken from the earth? + +8:34. And the eunuch answering Philip, said: I beseech thee, of whom +doth the prophet speak this? Of himself, or of some other man? + +8:35. Then Philip, opening his mouth and beginning at this scripture, +preached unto him Jesus. + +8:36. And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water. And +the eunuch said: See, here is water: What doth hinder me from being +baptized? + +8:37. And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy heart, thou +mayest. And he answering, said: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son +of God. + +If thou believest with all thy heart. . .The scripture many times +mentions only one disposition, as here belief, when others equally +necessary are not expressed, viz., a sorrow for sins, a firm hope, and +the love of God. Moreover, believing with the whole heart signifies a +belief of every thing necessary for salvation. + +8:38. And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down +into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him. + +8:39. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the +Lord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on +his way rejoicing. + +8:40. But Philip was found in Azotus: and passing through, he preached +the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. + + + +Acts Chapter 9 + + +Paul's conversion and zeal. Peter heals Eneas and raises up Tabitha to +life. + +9:1. And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against +the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest + +9:2. And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if +he found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to +Jerusalem. + +9:3. And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh +to Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him. + +9:4. And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, +Saul, why persecutest thou me? + +9:5. Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou +persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad. + +9:6. And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have +me to do? + +9:7. And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the city; and there it +shall be told thee what thou must do. Now the men who went in company +with him stood amazed, hearing indeed a voice but seeing no man. + +9:8. And Saul arose from the ground: and when his eyes were opened, he +saw nothing. But they, leading him by the hands, brought him to +Damascus. + +9:9. And he was there three days without sight: and he did neither eat +nor drink. + +9:10. Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias. And +the Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias, And he said: Behold I am +here, Lord. + +9:11. And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is +called Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. +For behold he prayeth. + +9:12. (And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands +upon him, that he might receive his sight.) + +9:13. But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how +much evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem. + +9:14. And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all +that invoke thy name. + +9:15. And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a +vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and +the children of Israel. + +9:16. For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's +sake. + +9:17. And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying +his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, +he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest +receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. + +9:18. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales: and +he received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized. + +9:19. And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with +the disciples that were at Damascus, for some days. + +9:20. And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is +the son of God. + +9:21. And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he +who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came +hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief +priests? + +9:22. But Saul increased much more in strength and confounded the Jews +who dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is the Christ. + +9:23. And when many days were passed, the Jews consulted together to +kill him. + +9:24. But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched +the gates also day and night, that they might kill him. + +9:25. But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by +the wall, letting him down in a basket. + +9:26. And when he was come into Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself +to the disciples: and they all were afraid of him, not believing that +he was a disciple. + +9:27. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and told +them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him: and how +in Damascus he had dealt confidently in the name of Jesus. + +9:28. And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem and +dealing confidently in the name of the Lord. + +9:29. He spoke also to the Gentiles and disputed with the Greeks. But +they sought to kill him. + +9:30. Which when the brethren had known, they brought him down to +Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus. + +9:31. Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and +Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was +filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost. + +9:32. And it came to pass that Peter, as he passed through, visiting +all, came to the saints who dwelt at Lydda. + +9:33. And he found there a certain man named Eneas, who had kept his +bed for eight years, who was ill of the palsy. + +9:34. And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee. +Arise and make thy bed. And immediately he arose. + +9:35. And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him: who were converted +to the Lord. + +9:36. And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by +interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and +almsdeeds which she did. + +9:37. And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died. +Whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. + +9:38. And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppe, the disciples, hearing +that Peter was there, sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would +not be slack to come unto them. + +9:39. And Peter rising up went with them. And when he was come, they +brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him, +weeping and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them. + +9:40. And they all being put forth, Peter, kneeling down, prayed. And +turning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes +and, seeing Peter, sat up. + +9:41. And giving her his hand, he lifted her up. And when he had called +the saints and the widows, he presented her alive. + +9:42. And it was made known throughout all Joppe. And many believed in +the Lord. + +9:43. And it cane to pass that he abode many days in Joppe, with one +Simon a tanner. + + + +Acts Chapter 10 + + +Cornelius is received into the church. Peter's vision. + +10:1. And there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a +centurion of that which is called the Italian band: + +10:2. A religious man, and fearing God with all his house, giving much +alms to the people and always praying to God. + +10:3. This man saw in a vision manifestly, about the ninth hour of the +day, an angel of God coming in unto him and saying to him: Cornelius. + +10:4. And he, beholding him. being seized with fear, said: What is it, +Lord? And he said to him: Thy prayers and thy alms are ascended for a +memorial in the sight of God. + +10:5. And now send men to Joppe: and call hither one Simon, who is +surnamed Peter. + +10:6. He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea +side. He will tell thee what thou must do. + +10:7. And when the angel who spoke to him was departed, he called two +of his household servants and a soldier who feared the Lord, of them +that were under him. + +10:8. To whom when he had related all, he sent them to Joppe. + +10:9. And on the next day, whilst they were going on their journey and +drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up to the higher parts of the +house to pray, about the sixth hour. + +10:10. And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they +were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind. + +10:11. And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as +it were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to +the earth: + +10:12. Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping +things of the earth and fowls of the air. + +10:13. And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat. + +10:14. But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing +that is common and unclean. + +10:15. And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God +hath cleansed, do not thou call common. + +10:16. And this was done thrice. And presently the vessel was taken up +into heaven. + +10:17. Now, whilst Peter was doubting within himself what the vision +that he had seen should mean, behold the men who were sent from +Cornelius, inquiring for Simon's house, stood at the gate. + +10:18. And when they had called, they asked if Simon, who is surnamed +Peter, were lodged there. + +10:19. And as Peter was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him: +Behold three men seek thee. + +10:20. Arise, therefore: get thee down and go with them, doubting +nothing: for I have sent them. + +10:21. Then Peter, going down to the men, said: Behold, I am he whom +you seek. What is the cause for which you are come? + +10:22. Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that +feareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews, +received an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house +And to hear words of thee. + +10:23. Then bringing them in, he lodged them. And the day following, he +arose and went with them: and some of the brethren from Joppe +accompanied him. + +10:24. And the morrow after, he entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius +waited for them, having called together his kinsmen and special +friends. + +10:25. And it came to pass that when Peter was come in, Cornelius came +to meet him and falling at his feet adored. + +10:26. But Peter lifted him up, saying: Arise: I myself also am a man. + +10:27. And talking with him, he went in and found many that were come +together. + +10:28. And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man +that is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation: +but God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean. + +10:29. For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I +ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me? + +10:30. And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto this hour, I was praying +in my house, at the ninth hour and behold a man stood before me in +white apparel and said: + +10:31. Cornelius, thy prayer is heard and thy alms are had in +remembrance in the sight of God. + +10:32. Send therefore to Joppe: and call hither Simon, who is surnamed +Peter. He lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side. + +10:33. Immediately therefore I sent to thee: and thou hast done well in +coming. Now, therefore, all we are present in thy sight to hear all +things whatsoever are commanded thee by the Lord. + +10:34. And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that +God is not a respecter of persons. + +10:35. But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is +acceptable to him. + +In every nation, etc. . .That is to say, not only Jews, but Gentiles +also, of what nation soever, are acceptable to God, if they fear him +and work justice. But then true faith is always to be presupposed, +without which (saith St. Paul, Heb. 11. 6) it is impossible to please +God. Beware then of the error of those, who would infer from this +passage, that men of all religions may be pleasing to God. For since +none but the true religion can be from God, all other religions must be +from the father of lies, and therefore highly displeasing to the God of +truth. + +10:36. God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace by +Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all). + +10:37. You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: +for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached. + +10:38. Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and +with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were +oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. + +10:39. And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of +the Jews and in Jerusalem: whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree. + +10:40. Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made +manifest, + +10:41. Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even +to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the +dead. + +10:42. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that +it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the +dead. + +10:43. To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all +receive remission of sins, who believe in him. + +10:44. While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on +all them that heard the word. + +10:45. And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were +astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the +Gentiles also. + +10:46. For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. + +10:47. Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should +not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we? + +10:48. And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord +Jesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days. + + + +Acts Chapter 11 + + +Peter defends his having received the Gentiles into the church. + +11:1. And the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the +Gentiles also had received the word of God. + +11:2. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the +circumcision contended with him, + +11:3. Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat +with them? + +11:4. But Peter began and declared to them the matter in order, saying: + +11:5. I was in the city of Joppe praying: and I saw in an ecstasy of +mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet +let down from heaven by four corners. And it came even unto me. + +11:6. Into which looking, I considered and saw fourfooted creatures of +the earth and beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air. + +11:7. And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and +eat. + +11:8. And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever +entered into my mouth. + +11:9. And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made +clean, do not thou call common. + +11:10. And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into +heaven. + +11:11. And behold, immediately there were three men come to the house +wherein I was, sent to me from Caesarea. + +11:12. And the Spirit said to me that I should go with them, nothing +doubting. And these six brethren went with me also: and we entered into +the man's house. + +11:13. And he told us how he had seen an angel in his house, standing +and saying to him: Send to Joppe and call hither Simon, who is surnamed +Peter, + +11:14. Who shall speak to thee words whereby thou shalt be saved, and +all thy house. + +11:15. And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as +upon us also in the beginning. + +11:16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said: John +indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy +Ghost. + +11:17. If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed +in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God? + +11:18. Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified +God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto +life. + +11:19. Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on +occasion of Stephen went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and +Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only. + +11:20. But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they +were entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the Lord +Jesus. + +11:21. And the hand of he Lord was with them: and a great number +believing, were converted to the Lord. + +11:22. And the tidings came to the ears of the church that was at +Jerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as +Antioch. + +11:23. Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced. +And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord. + +11:24. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. +And a great multitude was added to the Lord. + +11:25. And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when he had +found, he brought to Antioch. + +11:26. And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they +taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first +named Christians. + +11:27. And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch. + +11:28. And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit +that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to +pass under Claudius. + +11:29. And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed +to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea. + +11:30. Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of +Barnabas and Saul. + + + +Acts Chapter 12 + + +Herod's persecution. Peter's deliverance by an angel. Herod's +punishment. + +12:1. And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, +to afflict some of the church. + +12:2. And he killed James, the brother of John, With the sword. + +12:3. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up +Peter also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes. + +Azymes. . .The festival of the unleavened bread, or the pasch, which +answers to our Easter. + +12:4. And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, +delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after +the pasch, to bring him forth to the people. + +12:5. Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without +ceasing by the church unto God for him. + +12:6. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night, +Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the +keepers before the door kept the prison. + +12:7. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shined +in the room. And he, striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying: +Arise quickly. And the chains fell off from his hands. + +12:8. And the angel said to him: Gird thyself and put on thy sandals. +And he did so. And he said to him: Cast thy garment about thee and +follow me, + +12:9. And going out, he followed him. And he knew not that it was true +which was done by the angel: but thought he saw a vision. + +12:10. And passing through the first and the second ward, they came to +the iron gate that leadeth to the city which of itself opened to them. +And going out, they passed on through one street. And immediately the +angel departed from him. + +12:11. And Peter coming to himself, said: Now I know in very deed that +the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of +Herod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. + +12:12. And considering, he came to the house of Mary the mother of +John, who was surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together and +praying. + +12:13. And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to +hearken. whose name was Rhode. + +12:14. And as soon as she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate +for joy: but running in she told that Peter stood before the gate. + +12:15. But they said to her: Thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was +so. Then said they: It is his angel. + +12:16. But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened, they saw +him and were astonished. + +12:17. But he, beckoning to them with his hand to hold their peace, +told how the Lord had brought him out of prison. And he said: Tell +these things to James and to the brethren. And going out, he went into +another place. + +12:18. Now when day was come, there was no small stir among the +soldiers, what was become of Peter. + +12:19. And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, having +examined the keepers, he commanded they should be put to death. And +going down from Judea to Caesarea, he abode there. + +12:20. And he was angry with the Tyrians and the Sidonians. But they +with one accord came to him: and, having gained Blastus who was the +king's chamberlain, they desired peace, because their countries were +nourished by him. + +12:21. And upon a day appointed, Herod being arrayed in kingly apparel, +sat in the judgment seat and made an oration to them. + +12:22. And the people made acclamation, saying: It is the voice of a +god, and not of a man. + +12:23. And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had +not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up +the ghost. + +12:24. But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied. + +12:25. And Barnabas and Saul, returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled +their ministry, taking with them John who was surnamed Mark. + + + +Acts Chapter 13 + + +Saul and Barnabas are sent forth by the Holy Ghost. They preach in +Cyprus and in Antioch of Pisidia. + +13:1. Now there were in the church which was at Antioch prophets and +doctors, among whom was Barnabas and Simon who was called Niger, and +Lucius of Cyrene and Manahen who was the foster brother of Herod the +tetrarch, and Saul. + +13:2. And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy +Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work +whereunto I have taken them. + +13:3. Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, +sent them away. + +13:4. So they, being sent by the Holy Ghost, went to Seleucia: and from +thence they sailed to Cyprus. + +13:5. And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of +God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the +ministry. + +13:6. And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as +Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, +whose name was Bar-Jesu: + +13:7. Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He, +sending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God. + +13:8. But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted) +withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. + +13:9. Then Saul, otherwise Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, looking +upon him, + +13:10. Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, +enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the +Lord. + +13:11. And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou +shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there +fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one +to lead him by the hand. + +13:12. Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed, +admiring at the doctrine of the Lord. + +13:13. Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from +Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, +returned to Jerusalem. + +13:14. But they, passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: +and, entering into the Synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down. + +13:15. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of +the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any +word of exhortation to make to the people, speak. + +13:16. Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: +Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear. + +13:17. The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted +the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an +high arm brought them out from thence: + +13:18. And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the +desert: + +13:19. And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided +their land among them by lot. + +13:20. As it were, after four hundred and fifty years. And after these +things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet. + +13:21. And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the +son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years. + +13:22. And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: +to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of +Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills. + +13:23. Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised +up to Israel a Saviour Jesus: + +13:24. John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance +to all the people of Israel. + +13:25. And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he +whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose +shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. + +13:26. Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever +among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent. + +13:27. For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not +knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every +sabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them. + +13:28. And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate +that they might kill him. + +13:29. And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, +taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre. + +13:30. But God raised him up from the dead the third day. + +13:31. Who was seen for many days by them who came up with him from +Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the +people. + +13:32. And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our +fathers, + +13:33. This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, +as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have +I begotten thee. + +13:34. And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return +now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy +things of David, faithful. + +I will give you the holy, etc. . .These are the words of the prophet +Isaias, 55. 3. According to the Septuagint, the sense is: I will +faithfully fulfil the promises I made to David. + +13:35. And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not +suffer thy holy one to see corruption. + +13:36. For David, when he had served in his generation, according to +the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw +corruption. + +13:37. But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption. + +13:38. Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him +forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from +which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. + +13:39. In him every one that believeth is justified. + +13:40. Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in +the prophets: + +13:41. Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work +in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell +it you. + +13:42. And as they went out, they desired them that on the next sabbath +they would speak unto them these words. + +13:43. And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of +the strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking +to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. + +13:44. But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, +to hear the word of God. + +13:45. And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and +contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming. + +13:46. Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first +to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge +yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles. + +13:47. For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the +light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the +utmost part of the earth. + +13:48. And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of +the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed. + +13:49. And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole +country. + +13:50. But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women and the +chief men of the city: and raised persecution against Paul and +Barnabas: and cast them out of their coasts. + +13:51. But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came +to Iconium. + +13:52. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost. + + + +Acts Chapter 14 + + +Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconium and Lystra. Paul heals a cripple. +They are taken for gods. Paul is stoned. They preach in Derbe and +Perge. + +14:1. And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into +the synagogue of the Jews and so spoke that a very great multitude both +of the Jews and of the Greeks did believe. + +14:2. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the +Gentiles against the brethren. + +14:3. A long time therefore they abode there, dealing confidently in +the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs +and wonders to be done by their hands. + +14:4. And the multitude of the city was divided. And some of them +indeed held with the Jews, but some with the apostles. + +14:5. And when there was an assault made by the Gentiles and the Jews +with their rulers, to use them contumeliously and to stone them: + +14:6. They, understanding it, fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of +Lycaonia, and to the whole country round about: and were there +preaching the gospel. + +14:7. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a +cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. + +14:8. This same heard Paul speaking. Who looking upon him and seeing +that he had faith to be healed, + +14:9. Said with a loud voice: Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped +up and walked. + +14:10. And when the multitudes had seen what Paul had done, they lifted +up their voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come down +to us in the likeness of men. + +14:11. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: but Paul, Mercury: because he +was chief speaker. + +14:12. The priest also of Jupiter that was before the city, bringing +oxen and garlands before the gate, would have offered sacrifice with +the people. + +14:13. Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending +their clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying, + +14:14. And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, +men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain +things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea +and all things that are in them: + +14:15. Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own +ways. + +14:16. Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good +from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with +food and gladness. + +14:17. And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people +from sacrificing to them. + +14:18. Now there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium: +and, persuading the multitude and stoning Paul, drew him out of the +city, thinking him to be dead. + +14:19. But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and +entered into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to +Derbe. + +14:20. And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had +taught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and to +Antioch: + +14:21. Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to +continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter +into the kingdom of God. + +14:22. And when they had ordained to them priests in every church and +had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they +believed. + +14:23. And passing through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia. + +14:24. And having spoken the word of the Lord in Perge, they went down +into Attalia. + +14:25. And thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been +delivered to the grace of God, unto the work which they accomplished. + +14:26. And when they were come and had assembled the church, they +related what great things God had done with them and how he had opened +the door of faith to the Gentiles. + +14:27. And they abode no small time with the disciples. + + + +Acts Chapter 15 + + +A dissension about circumcision. The decision and letter of the council +of Jerusalem. + +15:1. And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, +except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be +saved. + +15:2. And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they +determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of the other side +should go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem, about this +question. + +15:3. They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed +through Phenice and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles. +And they caused great joy to all the brethren. + +15:4. And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the +church and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God +had done with them. + +15:5. But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, +saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of +Moses. + +15:6. And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this +matter. + +15:7. And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to +them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among +us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel +and believe. + +15:8. And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them +the Holy Ghost, as well as to us: + +15:9. And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts +by faith. + +15:10. Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of +the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? + +15:11. But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be +saved, in like manner as they also. + +15:12. And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas +and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the +Gentiles by them. + +15:13. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying: +Men, brethren, hear me. + +15:14. Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the +Gentiles, a people to his name. + +15:15. And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written: + +15:16. After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle +of David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. +And I will set it up: + +15:17. That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations +upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things. + +15:18. To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the +world. + +15:19. For which cause, judge that they who from among the Gentiles are +converted to God are not to be disquieted: + +15:20. But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from +the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled +and from blood. + +15:21. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in +the synagogues, where he is read every sabbath. + +15:22. Then it pleased the apostles and ancients, with the whole +church, to choose men of their own company and to send to Antioch with +Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, +chief men among the brethren. + +15:23. Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to +the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and +Cilicia, greeting. + +15:24. Forasmuch as we have heard that some going out from us have +troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no +commandment: + +15:25. It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose +out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and +Paul: + +15:26. Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus +Christ. + +15:27. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also +will, by word of mouth, tell you the same things. + +15:28. For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no +further burden upon you than these necessary things: + +15:29. That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood +and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things +keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well. + +From blood, and from things strangled. . .The use of these things, +though of their own nature indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring +the Jews more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to +exercise the latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but +temporary, and has long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the +western churches. + +15:30. They therefore, being dismissed, went down to Antioch and, +gathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle. + +15:31. Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. + +15:32. But Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, with many +words comforted the brethren and confirmed them. + +15:33. And after they had spent some time there, they were let go with +peace by the brethren unto them that had sent them. + +15:34. But it seemed good unto Silas to remain there: and Judas alone +departed to Jerusalem. + +15:35. And Paul and Barnabas continued at Antioch, teaching and +preaching, with many others, the word of the Lord. + +15:36. And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return and +visit our brethren in all the cities wherein we have preached the word +of the Lord, to see how they do. + +15:37. And Barnabas would have taken with them John also, that was +surnamed Mark. + +15:38. But Paul desired that he (as having departed from them out of +Pamphylia and not gone with them to the work) might not be received. + +15:39. And there arose a dissension so that they departed one from +another. And Barnabas indeed, taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus. + +15:40. But Paul, choosing Silas, departed, being delivered by the +brethren to the grace of God. + +15:41. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches, +commanding them to keep the precepts of the apostles and the ancients. + + + +Acts Chapter 16 + + +Paul visits the churches. He is called to preach in Macedonia. He is +scourged at Philippi. + +16:1. And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, there was a certain +disciple there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman that believed: +but his father was a Gentile. + +16:2. To this man the brethren that were in Lystra and Iconium gave a +good testimony. + +16:3. Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he +circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they +all knew that his father was a Gentile. + +16:4. And as they passed through the cities, they delivered unto them +the decrees for to keep, that were decreed by the apostles and ancients +who were at Jerusalem. + +16:5. And the churches were confirmed in faith and increased in number +daily. + +16:6. And when they had passed through Phrygia and the country of +Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in +Asia. + +16:7. And when they were come into Mysia, they attempted to go into +Bithynia: and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not. + +16:8. And when they had passed through Mysia, they went down to Troas. + +16:9. And a vision was shewed to Paul in the night, which was a man of +Macedonia standing and beseeching him and saying: Pass over into +Macedonia and help us. + +16:10. And as soon as he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to +go into Macedonia: being assured that God had called us to preach the +gospel to them. + +16:11. And sailing from Troas, we came with a straight course to +Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis. + +16:12. And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of part of +Macedonia, a colony. And we were in this city some days conferring +together. + +16:13. And upon the Sabbath day, we went forth without the gate by a +river side, where it seemed that there was prayer: and sitting down, we +spoke to the women that were assembled. + +16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city +of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord +opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul. + +16:15. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, +saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my +house and abide there. And she constrained us. + +16:16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl having +a pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters much gain by +divining. + +A pythonical spirit. . .That is, a spirit pretending to divine, and tell +fortunes. + +16:17. This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men +are the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of +salvation. + +16:18. And this she did many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and +said to the spirit: I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go +from her. And he went out the same hour. + +16:19. But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, +apprehending Paul and Silas, brought them into the market place to the +rulers. + +16:20. And presenting them to the magistrates, they said: These men +disturb our city, being Jews: + +16:21. And preach a fashion which it is not lawful for us to receive +nor observe, being Romans. + +16:22. And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates, +rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods. + +16:23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them +into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. + +16:24. Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner +prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. + +16:25. And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they +that were in prison heard them. + +16:26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the +foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors +were opened and the bands of all were loosed. + +16:27. And the keeper of the prison, awakening out of his sleep and +seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing his sword, would have +killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. + +16:28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying: Do thyself no harm, +for we all are here. + +16:29. Then calling for a light, he went in: and trembling, fell down +at the feet of Paul and Silas. + +16:30. And bringing them out, he said: Masters, what must I do, that I +may be saved? + +16:31. But they said: believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou shalt be +saved, and thy house. + +16:32. And they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all that +were in his house. + +16:33. And he, taking them the same hour of the night, washed their +stripes: and himself was baptized, and all his house immediately. + +16:34. And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the +table for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God. + +16:35. And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, +saying: Let those men go. + +16:36. And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The +magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart. And go in +peace. + +16:37. But Paul said to them: They have beaten us publicly, +uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison. And now +do they thrust us out privately? Not so: but let them come. + +16:38. And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to +the magistrates. And they were afraid: hearing that they were Romans. + +16:39. And coming, they besought them: and bringing them out, they +desired them to depart out of the city. + +16:40. And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of +Lydia: and having seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed. + + + +Acts Chapter 17 + + +Paul preaches to the Thessalonians and Bereans. His discourse to the +Athenians. + +17:1. And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they +came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. + +17:2. And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them. And for +three sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures: + +17:3. Declaring and insinuating that the Christ was to suffer and to +rise again from the dead; and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach +to you. + +17:4. And some of them believed and were associated to Paul and Silas: +and of those that served God and of the Gentiles a great multitude: and +of noble women not a few. + +17:5. But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked +men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: +and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people. + +17:6. And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the +rulers of the city, crying: They that set the city in an uproar are +come hither also: + +City. Urbem. . .In the Greek, the world. + +17:7. Whom Jason hath received. And these all do contrary to the +decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus. + +17:8. And they stirred up the people: and the rulers of the city, +hearing these things, + +17:9. And having taken satisfaction of Jason and of the rest, they let +them go. + +17:10. But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night +unto Berea. Who, when they were come thither, went into the synagogue +of the Jews. + +17:11. Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who +received the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures, +whether these things were so. + +More noble. . .The Jews of Berea are justly commended, for their eagerly +embracing the truth, and searching the scriptures, to find out the +texts alleged by the apostle: which was a far more generous proceeding +than that of their countrymen at Thessalonica, who persecuted the +preachers of the gospel, without examining the grounds they alleged for +what they taught. + +17:12. And many indeed of them believed: and of honourable women that +were Gentiles and of men, not a few. + +17:13. And when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of +God was also preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also, +stirring up and troubling the multitude. + +17:14. And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go unto the +sea: but Silas and Timothy remained there. + +17:15. And they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and +receiving a commandment from him to Silas and Timothy, that they should +come to him with all speed, they departed. + +17:16. Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was +stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry. + +17:17. He disputed, therefore, in the synagogue with the Jews and with +them that served God: and in the market place, every day, with them +that were there. + +17:18. And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics +disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would +say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because +he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. + +17:19. And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May +we know what this new doctrine is, which thou speakest of? + +17:20. For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would +know therefore what these things mean. + +17:21. (Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed +themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some +new thing.) + +17:22. But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men +of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. + +17:23. For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on +which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship +without knowing it, that I preach to you: + +17:24. God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of +heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. + +Dwelleth not in temples. . .God is not contained in temples; so as to +need them for his dwelling, or any other uses, as the heathens +imagined. Yet by his omnipresence, he is both there and everywhere. + +17:25. Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any +thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all +things: + +17:26. And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face +of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their +habitation. + +17:27. That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or +find him, although he be not far from every one of us. + +17:28. For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own +poets said: For we are also his offspring. + +17:29. Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the +divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art +and device of man. + +17:30. And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now +declareth unto men that all should every where do penance. + +17:31. Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world +in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by +raising him up from the dead. + +17:32. And when they had heard of the resurrection of the dead, some +indeed mocked. But others said: We will hear thee again concerning this +matter. + +17:33. So Paul went out from among them. + +17:34. But certain men, adhering to him, did believe: among whom was +also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with +them. + + + +Acts Chapter 18 + + +Paul founds the church of Corinth and preaches at Ephesus and in other +places. Apollo goes to Corinth. + +18:1. After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. + +18:2. And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately +come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife (because that Claudius had +commanded all Jews to depart from Rome), he came to them. + +18:3. And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and +wrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.) + +18:4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the +name of the Lord Jesus. And he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. + +18:5. And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was +earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. + +18:6. But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and +said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From +henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. + +18:7. And departing thence, he entered into the house of a certain man, +named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house was adjoining +to the synagogue. + +18:8. And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, +with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and +were baptized. + +18:9. And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear, +but speak. And hold not thy peace, + +18:10. Because I am with thee and no man shall set upon thee, to hurt +thee. For I have much people in this city. + +18:11. And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching among them +the word of God. + +18:12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one +accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, + +18:13. Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the +law. + +18:14. And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to +the Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O +Jews, I should with reason bear with you. + +18:15. But if they be questions of word and names and of your law, look +you to it. I will not be judge of such things. + +18:16. And he drove them from the judgment seat. + +18:17. And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, +beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those +things. + +18:18. But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of +the brethren, sailed thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and +Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow. + +18:19. And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself, +entering into the synagogue, disputed with the Jews. + +18:20. And when they desired him that he would tarry a longer time, he +consented not: + +18:21. But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God +willing, he departed from Ephesus. + +18:22. And going down to Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and saluted +the church: and so came down to Antioch. + +18:23. And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went +through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, confirming all +the disciples. + +18:24. Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent +man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures. + +18:25. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being +fervent in spirit, spoke and taught diligently the things that are of +Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John. + +18:26. This man therefore began to speak boldly in the synagogue. Whom +when Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took him to them and +expounded to him the way of the Lord more diligently. + +18:27. And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren +exhorting wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, when he was come, +helped them much who had believed. + +18:28. For with much vigour he convinced the Jews openly, shewing by +the scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. + + + +Acts Chapter 19 + + +Paul establishes the church at Ephesus. The tumult of the silversmiths. + +19:1. And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul, +having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and found +certain disciples. + +19:2. And he said to them: Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye +believed? But they said to him: We have not so much as heard whether +there be a Holy Ghost. + +19:3. And he said: In what then were you baptized? Who said: In John's +baptism. + +19:4. Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of +penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after +him, that is to say, in Jesus. + +19:5. Having heard these things, they were baptized in the name of the +Lord Jesus. + +19:6. And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came +upon them: and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. + +19:7. And all the men were about twelve. + +19:8. And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for the space of +three months, disputing and exhorting concerning the kingdom of God. + +19:9. But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of +the way of the Lord before the multitude, departing from them, he +separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. + +19:10. And this continued for the space of two years, so that all who +dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Gentiles. + +19:11. And God wrought by the hand of Paul more than common miracles. + +19:12. So that even there were brought from his body to the sick, +handkerchiefs and aprons: and the diseases departed from them: and the +wicked spirits went out of them. + +19:13. Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted +to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, +saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. + +19:14. And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief +priest, that did this. + +19:15. But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know: +and Paul I know. But who are you? + +19:16. And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and +mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of +that house naked and wounded. + +19:17. And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that +dwelt a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord +Jesus was magnified. + +19:18. And many of them that believed came, confessing and declaring +their deeds + +19:19. And many of them who had followed curious arts brought together +their books and burnt them before all. And, counting the price of them, +they found the money to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. + +19:20. So mightily grew the word of God and was confirmed. + +19:21. And when these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, +when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, +saying: After I have been there, I must see Rome also. + +19:22. And sending into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him, +Timothy and Erastus, he himself remained for a time in Asia. + +19:23. Now at that time there arose no small disturbance about the way +of the Lord. + +19:24. For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made +silver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen. + +19:25. Whom he calling together with the workmen of like occupation, +said: Sirs, you know that our gain is by this trade. + +19:26. And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn +away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, +saying: they are not gods which are made by hands. + +19:27. So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at +nought, but also the temple of great Diana shall be reputed for +nothing! Yea, and her majesty shall begin to be destroyed, whom all +Asia and the world worshippeth. + +19:28. Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried +out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians! + +19:29. And the whole city was filled with confusion. And having caught +Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions, they rushed +with one accord into the theatre. + +19:30. And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the +disciples suffered him not. + +19:31. And some also of the rulers of Asia, who were his friends, sent +unto him, desiring that he would not venture himself into the theatre. + +19:32. Now some cried one thing, some another. For the assembly was +confused: and the greater part knew not for what cause they were come +together. + +19:33. And they drew forth Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews +thrusting him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand for +silence, would have given the people satisfaction, + +19:34. But as soon as they perceived him to be a Jew, all with one +voice, for the space of about two, hours, cried out: Great is Diana of +the Ephesians! + +19:35. And when the town clerk had appeased the multitudes, he said: Ye +men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the +Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana and of Jupiter's +offspring? + +19:36. For as much therefore as these things cannot be contradicted, +you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly. + +19:37. For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of +sacrilege nor of blasphemy against your goddess. + +19:38. But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a +matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are +proconsuls. Let them accuse one another. + +19:39. And if you inquire after any other matter, it may be decided in +a lawful assembly. + +19:40. For we are even in danger to be called in question for this +day's uproar, there being no man guilty (of whom we may give account) +of this concourse. And when he had said these things, he dismissed the +assembly. + + + +Acts Chapter 20 + + +Paul passes through Macedonia and Greece. He raises a dead man to life +at Troas. His discourse to the clergy of Ephesus. + +20:1. And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the +disciples and exhorting them, took his leave and set forward to go into +Macedonia. + +20:2. And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with +many words, he came into Greece: + +20:3. Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for +him, as he was about to sail into Syria. So he took a resolution to +return through Macedonia. + +20:4. And there accompanied him Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea: +and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe +and Timothy: and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. + +20:5. These, going before, stayed for us at Troas. + +20:6. But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the azymes and came +to them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days. + +20:7. And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break +bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he +continued his speech until midnight. + +And on the first day of the week. . .Here St. Chrysostom and many other +interpreters of the scripture explain, that the Christians even at this +time, must have changed the sabbath into the first day of the week, +(the Lord's day,) as all Christians now keep it. This change was +undoubtedly made by the authority of the church; hence the exercise of +the power, which Christ had given to her: for he is Lord of the +sabbath. + +20:8. And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where +we were assembled. + +20:9. And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window, +being oppressed with a deep sleep (as Paul was long preaching), by +occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down and was taken up +dead. + +20:10. To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him and, +embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him. + +20:11. Then going up and breaking bread and tasting and having talked a +long time to them, until daylight, so he departed. + +20:12. And they brought the youth alive and were not a little +comforted. + +20:13. But we going aboard the ship, sailed to Assos, being there to +take in Paul. For so he had appointed, himself purposing to travel by +land. + +20:14. And when he had met with us at Assos, we took him in and came to +Mitylene. + +20:15. And sailing thence, the day following we came over against +Chios: and the next day we arrived at Samos: and the day following we +came to Miletus. + +20:16. For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be +stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted. if it were possible for him, to +keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem. + +20:17. And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of +the church. + +20:18. And when they were come to him and were together, he said to +them: You know from the first day that I came into Asia, in what manner +I have been with you, for all the time. + +20:19. Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and +temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews: + +20:20. How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but +have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to +house, + +20:21. Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and +faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. + +20:22. And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: +not knowing the things which shall befall me there: + +20:23. Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: +That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. + +20:24. But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more +precious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the +ministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify +the gospel of the grace of God. + +20:25. And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone +preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. + +20:26. Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from +the blood of all men. + +20:27. For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of +God. + +20:28. Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy +Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath +purchased with his own blood. + +20:29. I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in +among you, not sparing the flock. + +20:30. And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, +to draw away disciples after them. + +20:31. Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased +not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day. + +20:32. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who +is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the +sanctified. + +20:33. I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as + +20:34. You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and +them that are with me, these hands have furnished. + +20:35. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to +support the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he +said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive. + +20:36. And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with +them all. + +20:37. And there was much weeping among them all. And falling on the +neck of Paul, they kissed him, + +20:38. Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that +they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to +the ship. + + + +Acts Chapter 21 + + +Paul goes up to Jerusalem. He is apprehended by the Jews in the temple. + +21:1. And when it came to pass that, being parted from them, we set +sail, we came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to +Rhodes: and from thence to Patara. + +21:2. And when we had found a ship sailing over to Phenice, we went +aboard and set forth. + +21:3. And when we had discovered Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, +we sailed into Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to +unlade her burden. + +21:4. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to +Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. + +21:5. And the days being expired, departing we went forward, they all +bringing us on our way, with their wives and children, till we were out +of the city. And we kneeled down on the shore: and we prayed. + +21:6. And when we had bid one another farewell, we took ship. And they +returned home. + +21:7. But we, having finished the voyage by sea, from Tyre came down to +Ptolemais: and saluting the brethren, we abode one day with them. + +21:8. And the next day departing, we came to Caesarea. And entering +into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we +abode with him. + +The evangelist. . .That is, the preacher of the gospel; the same that +before converted the Samaritans, and baptized the eunuch, chap. 8., +being one of the first seven deacons. + +21:9. And he had four daughters, virgins, who did prophesy. + +21:10. And as we tarried there for some days, there came from Judea a +certain prophet, named Agabus. + +21:11. Who, when he was come to us, took Paul's girdle: and binding his +own feet and hands, he said: Thus saith the Holy Ghost: The man whose +girdle this is, the Jews shall bind in this manner in Jerusalem and +shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. + +21:12. Which when we had heard, both we and they that were of that +place desired him that he would not go up to Jerusalem. + +21:13. Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and +afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die +also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. + +21:14. And when we could not persuade him, we ceased, saying: The will +of the Lord be done. + +21:15. And after those days, being prepared, we went up to Jerusalem. + +21:16. And there went also with us some of the disciples from Caesarea, +bringing with them one Mnason a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we +should lodge. + +21:17. And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us +gladly. + +21:18. And the day following, Paul went in with us unto James: and all +the ancients were assembled. + +21:19. Whom when he had saluted, he related particularly what things +God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. + +21:20. But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, +brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have +believed: and they are all zealous for the law. + +21:21. Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who +are among the Gentiles to depart from Moses: saying that they ought not +to circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom. + +21:22. What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together: +for they will hear that thou art come. + +21:23. Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who +have a vow on them. + +21:24. Take these and sanctify thyself with them: and bestow on them, +that they may shave their heads. And all will know that the things +which they have heard of these are false: but that thou thyself also +walkest keeping the law. + +Keeping the law. . .The law, though now no longer obligatory, was for a +time observed by the Christian Jews: to bury, as it were, the synagogue +with honour. + +21:25. But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, +decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has +been offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from +fornication. + +21:26. Then Paul took the men and, the next day being purified with +them, entered into the temple, giving notice of the accomplishment of +the days of purification, until an oblation should be offered for every +one of them. + +21:27. But when the seven days were drawing to an end, those Jews that +were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the +people and laid hands upon him, crying out: + +21:28. Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every +where against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath +brought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place. + +21:29. (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him. +whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) + +21:30. And he whole city was in an uproar: and the people ran together. +And taking Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and immediately the +doors were shut. + +21:31. And as they went about to kill him, it was told the tribune of +the band that all Jerusalem was in confusion. + +21:32. Who, forthwith taking with him soldiers and centurions, ran down +to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they left off +beating Paul. + +21:33. Then the tribune, coming near, took him and commanded him to be +bound with two chains: and demanded who he was and what he had done. + +21:34. And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude. And +when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him +to be carried into the castle. + +21:35. And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was +carried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people. + +21:36. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying: Away +with him! + +21:37. And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith to +the tribune: May I speak something to thee? Who said: Canst thou speak +Greek? + +21:38. Art not thou that Egyptian who before these days didst raise a +tumult and didst lead forth into the desert four thousand men that were +murderers? + +21:39. But Paul said to him: I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen +of no mean city. And I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people. + +21:40. And when he had given him leave, Paul standing on the stairs, +beckoned with his hand to the people. And a great silence being made, +he spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying: + + + +Acts Chapter 22 + + +Paul declares to the people the history of his conversion. He escapes +scourging by claiming the privilege of a Roman citizen. + +22:1. Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give +unto you. + +22:2. (And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, +they kept the more silence.) + +22:3. And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought +up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth +of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are +this day: + +22:4. Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into +prisons both men and women, + +22:5. As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. +From whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, +that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished. + +22:6. And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, +at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a +great light: + +22:7. And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, +Saul, why persecutest thou me? + +22:8. And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am +Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. + +22:9. And they that were with me saw indeed the light: but they heard +not the voice of him that spoke with me. + +Heard not the voice. . .That is, they distinguished not the words; +though they heard the voice. Acts 9. 7. + +22:10. And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me: +Arise and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things +that thou must do. + +22:11. And whereas I did not see for the brightness of that light, +being led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus, + +22:12. And one Ananias, a man according to the law, having testimony of +all the Jews who dwelt there, + +22:13. Coming to me and standing by me, said to me: Brother Saul, look +up. And I, the same hour, looked upon him. + +22:14. But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that +thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the +voice from his mouth. + +Just One. . .Our Saviour, who appeared to St. Paul, Acts 9. 17. + +22:15. For thou shalt be his witness to all men of those things which +thou hast seen and heard. + +22:16. And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away +thy sins, invoking his name. + +22:17. And it came to pass, when I was come again to Jerusalem and was +praying in the temple, that I was in a trance, + +22:18. And saw him saying unto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out +of Jerusalem: because they will not receive thy testimony concerning +me. + +22:19. And I said: Lord, they know that I cast into prison and beat in +every synagogue them that believed in thee. + +22:20. And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I stood by +and consented: and kept the garments of them that killed him. + +22:21. And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I +send thee. + +22:22. And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their +voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit +that he should live. + +22:23. And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust +into the air, + +22:24. The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and +that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they +did so cry out against him. + +22:25. And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the +centurion that stood by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that +is a Roman and uncondemned? + +22:26. Which the centurion hearing, went to the tribune and told him, +saying: What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen. + +22:27. And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman? +But he said: Yea. + +22:28. And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city +with a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so. + +22:29. Immediately therefore they departed from him that were about to +torture him. The tribune also was afraid after he understood that he +was a Roman citizen and because he had bound him. + +22:30. But on the next day, meaning to know more diligently for what +cause he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the +priests to come together and all the council: and, bringing forth Paul, +he set him before them. + + + +Acts Chapter 23 + + +Paul stands before the council. The Jews conspire his death. He is sent +away to Cesarea. + +23:1. And Paul, looking upon the council, said: Men, brethren, I have +conversed with all good conscience before God until this present day. + +23:2. And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to +strike him on the mouth. + +23:3. Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. +For, sittest thou to judge me according to the law and, contrary to the +law, commandest me to be struck? + +23:4. And they that stood by said: Dost thou revile the high priest of +God? + +23:5. And Paul said: I knew not, brethren, that he is the high priest. +For it is written: Thou shalt not speak evil of the prince of thy +people. + +23:6. And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other +Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, +the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead +I am called in question. + +23:7. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the +Pharisees and the Sadducees. And the multitude was divided. + +23:8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither +angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. + +23:9. And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up, +strove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath +spoken to him, or an angel? + +23:10. And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune, fearing +lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to +go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into +the castle. + +23:11. And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said: Be +constant: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou +bear witness also at Rome. + +23:12. And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and +bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor +drink till they killed Paul. + +23:13. And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy. + +23:14. Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have +bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we +have slain Paul. + +23:15. Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, +that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more +certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill +him. + +23:16. Which when Paul's sister's son had heard, of their lying in +wait, he came and entered into the castle and told Paul. + +23:17. And Paul, calling to him one of the centurions, said: Bring this +young man to the tribune: for he hath some thing to tell him. + +23:18. And he, taking him, brought him to the tribune and said: Paul, +the prisoner, desired me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath +some thing to say to thee. + +23:19. And the tribune, taking him by the hand, went aside with him +privately and asked him: What is it that thou hast to tell me? + +23:20. And he said: The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou +wouldst bring forth Paul to-morrow into the council, as if they meant +to inquire some thing more certain touching him. + +23:21. But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for +him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath +neither to eat nor to drink, till they have killed him. And they are +now ready, looking for a promise from thee. + +23:22. The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that +he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him. + +23:23. Then having called two centurions, he said to them: Make ready +two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea: and seventy horsemen and +two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night. + +23:24. And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe +to Felix the governor. + +23:25. (For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by +force and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was +to take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner: + +23:26. Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting: + +23:27. This man, being taken by the Jews and ready to be killed by +them, I rescued, coming in with an army, understanding that he is a +Roman. + +23:28. And meaning to know the cause which they objected unto him, I +brought him forth into their council. + +23:29. Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; +but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands. + +23:30. And when I was told of ambushes that they had prepared for him, +I sent him to thee, signifying also to his accusers to plead before +thee. Farewell. + +23:31. Then the soldiers, according as it was commanded them, taking +Paul, brought him by night to Antipatris. + +23:32. And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they +returned to the castle. + +23:33. Who, when they were come to Caesarea and had delivered the +letter to the governor, did also present Paul before him. + +23:34. And when he had read it and had asked of what province he was +and understood that he was of Cilicia: + +23:35. I will hear thee, said he, when thy accusers come. And he +commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall. + + + +Acts Chapter 24 + + +Paul defends his innocence before Felix the governor. He preaches the +faith to him. + +24:1. And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with +some ancients and one Tertullus, an orator, who went to the governor +against Paul. + +24:2. And Paul being called for, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: +Whereas, through thee we live in much peace and many things are +rectified by thy providence, + +24:3. We accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with +all thanksgiving. + +24:4. But that I be no further tedious to thee, I desire thee of thy +clemency to hear us in a few words. + +24:5. We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions +among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of +the sect of the Nazarenes. + +24:6. Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom, we having +apprehended, would also have judged according to our law. + +24:7. But Lysias the tribune, coming upon us with great violence, took +him away out of our hands; + +24:8. Commanding his accusers to come to thee. Of whom thou mayest +thyself, by examination, have knowledge of all these things whereof we +accuse him. + +24:9. And the Jews also added and said that these things were so. + +24:10. Then Paul answered (the governor making a sign to him to speak): +Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge over this nation, I +will with good courage answer for myself. + +24:11. For thou mayest understand that there are yet but twelve days +since I went up to adore in Jerusalem: + +24:12. And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any +man or causing any concourse of the people: neither in the synagogues, +nor in the city. + +24:13. Neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now +accuse me. + +24:14. But this I confess to thee that according to the way which they +call a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all +things which are written in the law and the prophets: + +24:15. Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that +there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust. + +24:16. And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without +offence, towards God and towards men. + +24:17. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and +offerings and vows. + +24:18. In which I was found purified in the temple: neither with +multitude nor with tumult. + +24:19. But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be present before thee +and to accuse, if they had anything against me: + +24:20. Or let these men themselves say if they found in me any +iniquity, when standing before the council, + +24:21. Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing +among them: Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this +day by you. + +24:22. And Felix put them off, having most certain knowledge of this +way, saying: When Lysias the tribune shall come down, I will hear you. + +24:23. And he commanded a centurion to keep him: and that he should be +easy and that he should not prohibit any of his friends to minister +unto him. + +24:24. And after some days, Felix, coming with Drusilla his wife, who +was a Jew, sent for Paul and heard of him the faith that is in Christ +Jesus. + +24:25. And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to +come, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but +when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee. + +24:26. Hoping also withal that money should be given him by Paul: for +which cause also oftentimes sending for him, he spoke with him. + +24:27. But when two years were ended, Felix had for successor Portius +Festus. And Felix being willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul +bound. + + + +Acts Chapter 25 + + +Paul appeals to Caesar. King Agrippa desires to hear him. + +25:1. Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days, he +went up to Jerusalem from Cesarea. + +25:2. And the chief priests and principal men of the Jews went unto him +against Paul: and they besought him, + +25:3. Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be +brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way. + +25:4. But Festus answered: That Paul was kept in Caesarea: and that he +himself would very shortly depart thither. + +25:5. Let them, therefore, saith he, among you that are able, go down +with me and accuse him, if there be any crime in the man. + +25:6. And having tarried among them no more than eight or ten days, he +went down to Caesarea. And the next day, he sat in the judgment seat +and commanded Paul to be brought. + +25:7. Who being brought, the Jews stood about him, who were come down +from Jerusalem, objecting many and grievious causes, which they could +not prove: + +25:8. Paul making answer for himself: Neither against the law of the +Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended in +any thing. + +25:9. But Festus, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, answering Paul, +said: Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem and there be judged of these things +before me? + +25:10. Then Paul said: I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought +to be judged. To the Jews I have done no injury, as thou very well +knowest. + +25:11. For if I have injured them or have committed any thing worthy of +death, I refuse not to die. But if there be none of these things +whereof they accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to +Caesar. + +25:12. Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered: Hast +thou appealed to Caesar? To Caesar shalt thou go. + +25:13. And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to +Caesarea, to salute Festus. + +25:14. And as they tarried there many days, Festus told the king of +Paul, saying: A certain man was left prisoner by Felix. + +25:15. About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the +ancients of the Jews came unto me, desiring condemnation against him. + +25:16. To whom I answered: it is not the custom of the Romans to +condemn any man, before that he who is accused have his accusers +present and have liberty to make his answer, to clear himself of the +things laid to his charge. + +25:17. When therefore they were come hither, without any delay, on the +day following, sitting in the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be +brought. + +25:18. Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no +accusation of this which I thought ill of: + +25:19. But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, +and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. + +25:20. I therefore being in a doubt of this manner of question, asked +him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these +things. + +25:21. But Paul, appealing to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, +I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Caesar. + +25:22. And Agrippa said to Festus: I would also hear the man, myself. +To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. + +25:23. And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice were come with +great pomp and had entered into the hall of audience with the tribunes +and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment, Paul was brought +forth. + +25:24. And Festus saith: King Agrippa and all ye men who are here +present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the +Jews dealt with me at Jerusalem, requesting and crying out that he +ought not to live any longer. + +25:25. Yet have I found nothing that he hath committed worthy of death. +But forasmuch as he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have +determined to send him. + +25:26. Of whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. For which +cause, I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, +O king Agrippa, that, examination being made, I may have what to write. + +25:27. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to +signify the things laid to his charge. + + + +Acts Chapter 26 + + +Paul gives an account to Agrippa of his life, conversion and calling. + +26:1. Then Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for +thyself. Then Paul, stretching forth his hand, began to make his +answer. + +26:2. I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that I am to answer for +myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am +accused by the Jews. + +26:3. Especially as thou knowest all, both customs and questions, that +are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. + +26:4. And my life indeed from my youth, which was from the beginning +among my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews do know: + +26:5. Having known me from the beginning (if they will give testimony) +that according to the most sure sect of our religion I lived, a +Pharisee. + +26:6. And now for the hope of the promise that was made by God to the +fathers, do I stand subject to judgment: + +26:7. Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to +come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews. + +26:8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise +the dead? + +26:9. And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things +contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. + +26:10. Which also I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut +up in prison, having received authority of the chief priests. And when +they were put to death, I brought the sentence. + +26:11. And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled +them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted +them even unto foreign cities. + +26:12. Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and +permission of the chief priest, + +26:13. At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above +the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that were in +company with me. + +26:14. And when we were all fallen down on the ground, I heard a voice +speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou +me? It is hard for thee to kick against the good. + +26:15. And I said: Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord answered: I am +Jesus whom thou persecutest. + +26:16. But rise up and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I +appeared to thee, that I may make thee a minister and a witness of +those things which thou hast seen and of those things wherein I will +appear to thee, + +26:17. Delivering thee from the people and from the nations unto which +now I send thee: + +26:18. To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to +light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive +forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in +me. + +26:19. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not incredulous to the heavenly +vision. + +26:20. But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and +unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that +they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance. + +26:21. For this cause, the Jews, when I was in the temple, having +apprehended me, went about to kill me. + +26:22. But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, +witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those +which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass: + +26:23. That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that +should rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and to +the Gentiles. + +26:24. As he spoke these things and made his answer, Festus said with a +loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee +mad. + +26:25. And Paul said: I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I speak +words of truth and soberness. + +26:26. For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with +confidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden +from him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner. + +26:27. Believest thou the prophets, O king Agrippa? I know that thou +believest. + +26:28. And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to +become a Christian. + +26:29. And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, +not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such +as I also am, except these bands. + +26:30. And the king rose up, and the governor and Bernice and they that +sat with them. + +26:31. And when they were gone aside, they spoke among themselves, +saying: This man hath done nothing worthy of death or of bands. + +26:32. And Agrippa said to Festus: This man might have been set at +liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar. + + + +Acts Chapter 27 + + +Paul is shipped for Rome. His voyage and shipwreck. + +27:1. And when it was determined that he should sail into Italy and +that Paul, with the other prisoners, should be delivered to a +centurion, named Julius, of the band Augusta, + +27:2. Going on board a ship of Adrumetum, we launched, meaning to sail +by the coasts of Asia, Aristarchus, the Macedonian of Thessalonica, +continuing with us. + +27:3. And the day following, we came to Sidon. And Julius, treating +Paul courteously, permitted him to go to his friends and to take care +of himself. + +27:4. And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, +because the winds were contrary. + +27:5. And sailing over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to +Lystra, which is in Lycia. + +27:6. And there, the centurion, finding a ship of Alexandria sailing +into Italy, removed us into it. + +27:7. And when for many days we had sailed slowly and were scarce come +over against Gnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed near Crete by +Salmone. + +27:8. And with much ado sailing by it, we came into a certain place, +which is called Good-havens, nigh to which was the city of Thalassa. + +27:9. And when much time was spent and when sailing now was dangerous, +because the fast was now past, Paul comforted them, + +27:10. Saying to them: Ye men, I see that the voyage beginneth to be +with injury and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also +of our lives. + +27:11. But the centurion believed the pilot and the master of the ship, +more than those things which were said by Paul. + +27:12. And whereas it was not a commodious haven to winter in, the +greatest part gave counsel to sail thence, if by any means they might +reach Phenice, to winter there, which is a haven of Crete, looking +towards the southwest and northwest. + +27:13. And the south wind gently blowing, thinking that they had +obtained their purpose, when they had loosed from Asson, they sailed +close by Crete. + +27:14. But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, +called Euroaquilo. + +27:15. And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the +wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven. + +27:16. And running under a certain island that is called Cauda, we had +much work to come by the boat. + +27:17. Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: +and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down +the sail yard and so were driven. + +27:18. And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day +they lightened the ship. + +27:19. And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking +of the ship. + +27:20. And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no +small storms lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away. + +27:21. And after they had fasted a long time, Paul standing forth in +the midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened +unto me and not have loosed from Crete and have gained this harm and +loss. + +27:22. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer. For there shall be no +loss of any man's life among you, but only of the ship. + +27:23. For an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me +this night, + +27:24. Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and +behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. + +27:25. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it +shall so be, as it hath been told me. + +27:26. And we must come unto a certain island. + +27:27. But after the fourteenth night was come, as we were sailing in +Adria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they discovered some +country. + +27:28. Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms: and going on a little +further, they found fifteen fathoms. + +27:29. Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast +four anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day. + +27:30. But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let +down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have +cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship, + +27:31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these +stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. + +27:32. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall +off. + +27:33. And when it began to be light, Paul besought them all to take +meat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited and +continued fasting, taking nothing. + +27:34. Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat for your health's sake: +for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish. + +27:35. And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks +to God in the sight of them all. And when he had broken it, he began to +eat. + +27:36. Then were they all of better cheer: and they also took some +meat. + +27:37. And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and +sixteen souls. + +27:38. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting +the wheat into the sea. + +27:39. And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered +a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they +could, to thrust in the ship. + +27:40. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed +themselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands. And hoisting up +the mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore. + +27:41. And when we were fallen into a place where two seas met, they +run the ship aground. And the forepart indeed, sticking fast, remained +unmoveable: but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the +sea. + +27:42. And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the +prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out should escape. + +27:43. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done. +And he commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves first +into the sea and save themselves and get to land. + +27:44. And the rest, some they carried on boards and some on those +things that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass that every +soul got safe to land. + + + +Acts Chapter 28 + + +Paul, after three months' stay in Melita, continues his voyage and +arrives at Rome. His conference there with the Jews. + +28:1. And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called +Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy. + +28:2. For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the +present rain and of the cold. + +28:3. And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had +laid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his +hand. + +28:4. And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they +said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he +hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live. + +28:5. And he indeed, shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no +harm. + +28:6. But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he +would suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that +there came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was +a god. + +28:7. Now in these places were possessions of the chief man of the +island, named Publius: who, receiving us for three days, entertained us +courteously. + +28:8. And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever +and of a bloody flux. To whom Paul entered in. And when he had prayed +and laid his hands on him, he healed him. + +28:9. Which being done, all that had diseases in the island came and +were healed. + +28:10. Who also honoured us with many honours: and when we were to set +sail, they laded us with such things as were necessary. + +28:11. And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that +had wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors. + +28:12. And when we were come to Syracusa, we tarried there three days. + +28:13. From thence, compassing by the shore, we came to Rhegium: and +after one day, the south wind blowing, we came the second day to +Puteoli: + +28:14. Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them +seven days. And so we went to Rome. + +28:15. And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to +meet us as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns. Whom when Paul +saw, he gave thanks to God and took courage. + +28:16. And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by +himself, with a soldier that kept him. + +28:17. And after the third day, he called together the chief of the +Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, +having done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers, +was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. + +28:18. Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that +there was no cause of death in me. + +28:19. But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto +Caesar: not that I had anything to accuse my nation of. + +28:20. For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to +you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain. + +28:21. But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning +thee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither +relate or speak any evil of thee. + +28:22. But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as +concerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted. + +28:23. And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to +him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of +God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and +the prophets, from morning until evening. + +28:24. And some believed the things that were said: but some believed +not. + +28:25. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul +speaking this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by +Isaias the prophet, + +28:26. Saying: Go to this people and say to them: With the ear you +shall hear and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see and shall +not perceive. + +28:27. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears +have they heard heavily and their eyes they have shut, lest perhaps +they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand +with their heart and should be converted: and I should heal them. + +28:28. Be it known therefore to you that this salvation of God is sent +to the Gentiles: and they will hear it. + +28:29. And when he had said these things, the Jews went out from him, +having much reasoning among themselves. + +28:30. And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging: and he +received all that came in to him, + +28:31. Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which +concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without +prohibition. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS + + + +St. Paul wrote this epistle at Corinth, when he was preparing to go to +Jerusalem with the charitable contributions collected in Achaia and +Macedonia for the relief of the Christians in Judea; which was about +twenty-four years after Our Lord's Ascension. It was written in Greek; +but at the same time translated into Latin, for the benefit of those +who did not understand that language. And though it is not the first of +his Epistles in the order of time, yet it is first placed on account of +sublimity of the matter contained in it, of the preeminence of the +place to which it was sent, and in veneration of the Church. + + + +Romans Chapter 1 + + +He commends the faith of the Romans, whom he longs to see. The +philosophy of the heathens, being void of faith and humility, betrayed +them into shameful sins. + +1:1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, +separated unto the gospel of God. + +1:2. Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy +scriptures, + +1:3. Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David, +according to the flesh, + +1:4. Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the +spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ +from the dead: + +Predestinated, etc. . .Christ as man, was predestinated to be the Son of +God: and declared to be so (as the apostle here signifies) first, by +power, that is, by his working stupendous miracles; secondly, by the +spirit of sanctification, that is, by his infinite sanctity; thirdly, +by his ressurection, or raising himself from the dead. + +1:5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to +the faith, in all nations, for his name: + +1:6. Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ: + +1:7. To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. +Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus +Christ. + +1:8. First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: +because your faith is spoken of in the whole world. + +1:9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of +his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you: + +1:10. Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at +length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come +unto you. + +1:11. For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual +grace, to strengthen you: + +1:12. That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you by that +which is common to us both, your faith and mine. + +1:13. And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often +purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I +might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. + +1:14. To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the +unwise, I am a debtor. + +1:15. So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you +also that are at Rome. + +1:16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God +unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the +Greek. + +1:17. For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto +faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith. + +1:18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all +ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in +injustice: + +1:19. Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God +hath manifested it unto them. + +1:20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world +are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His +eternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable. + +1:21. Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as +God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their +foolish heart was darkened. + +1:22. For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. + +1:23. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the +likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of +fourfooted beasts and of creeping things. + +1:24. Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto +uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. + +1:25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served +the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. + +1:26. For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For +their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against +nature. + +God delivered them up. . .Not by being author of their sins, but by +withdrawing his grace, and so permitting them, in punishment of their +pride, to fall into those shameful sins. + +1:27. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the +women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, +working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense +which was due to their error. + +1:28. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God +delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are +not convenient. + +1:29. Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, +wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: +whisperers, + +1:30. Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, +inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, + +1:31. Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without +mercy. + +1:32. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that +they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do +them, but they also that consent to them that do them. + + + +Romans Chapter 2 + + +The Jews are censured, who make their boast of the law and keep it not. +He declares who are the true Jews. + +2:1. Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that +judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For +thou dost the same things which thou judgest. + +2:2. For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, +against them that do such things. + +2:3. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such +things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? + +2:4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and +longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee +to penance? + +2:5. But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou +treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation +of the just judgment of God: + +2:6. Who will render to every man according to his works. + +2:7. To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory +and honour and incorruption, eternal life: + +2:8. But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but +give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. + +2:9. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: +of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. + +2:10. But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to +the Jew first, and also to the Greek. + +2:11. For there is no respect of persons with God. + +2:12. For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without +the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the +law. + +2:13. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers +of the law shall be justified. + +2:14. For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those +things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to +themselves. + +2:15. Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their +conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between +themselves accusing or also defending one another, + +2:16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus +Christ, according to my gospel. + +2:17. But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest +thy boast of God, + +2:18. And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, +being instructed by the law: + +2:19. Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light +of them that are in darkness, + +2:20. An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the +form of knowledge and of truth in the law. + +2:21. Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: +thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. + +2:22. Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest +adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: + +2:23. Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the +law dishonourest God. + +2:24. (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the +Gentiles, as it is written.) + +2:25. Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou +be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. + +2:26. If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall +not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? + +2:27. And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it +fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a +transgressor of the law? + +2:28. For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that +circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. + +2:29. But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that +of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of +men, but of God. + + + +Romans Chapter 3 + + +The advantages of the Jews. All men are sinners and none can be +justified by the works of the law, but only by the grace of Christ. + +3:1. What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of +circumcision? + +3:2. Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were +committed to them. + +3:3. For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief +make the faith of God without effect? God forbid! + +3:4. But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou +mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art +judged. + +God only is essentially true. All men in their own capacity are liable +to lies and errors: nevertheless God, who is the truth, will make good +his promise of keeping his church in all truth. See St. John 16.13. + +3:5. But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we +say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? + +3:6. (I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God +judge this world? + +3:7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto +his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner? + +3:8. And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we +say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just. + +3:9. What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both +Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. + +3:10. As it is written: There is not any man just. + +There is not any man just, viz. . .by virtue either of the law of +nature, or of the law of Moses; but only by faith and grace. + +3:11. There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh +after God. + +3:12. All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable +together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one. + +3:13. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have +dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips. + +3:14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: + +3:15. Their feet swift to shed blood: + +3:16. Destruction and misery in their ways: + +3:17. And the way of peace they have not known. + +3:18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. + +3:19. Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh +to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all +the world may be made subject to God. + +3:20. Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified +before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. + +3:21. But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, +being witnessed by the law and the prophets. + +3:22. Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and +upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction. + +3:23. For all have sinned and do need the glory of God. + +3:24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that +is in Christ Jesus, + +3:25. Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his +blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, + +3:26. Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in +this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is +of the faith of Jesus Christ + +3:27. Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of +works? No, but by the law of faith. + +3:28. For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works +of the law. + +By faith, etc. . .The faith, to which the apostle here attributes man's +justification, is not a presumptuous assurance of our being justified; +but a firm and lively belief of all that God has revealed or promised. +Heb. 11. A faith working through charity in Jesus Christ. Gal. 5.6. In +short, a faith which takes in hope, love, repentance, and the use of +the sacraments. And the works which he here excludes, are only the +works of the law: that is, such as are done by the law of nature, or +that of Moses, antecedent to the faith of Christ: but by no means, such +as follow faith, and proceed from it. + +3:29. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? +yes, of the Gentiles also. + +3:30. For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and +uncircumcision through faith. + +3:31. Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we +establish the law. + + + +Romans Chapter 4 + + +Abraham was not justified by works done, as of himself, but by grace +and by faith. And that before he was circumcised. Gentiles, by faith, +are his children. + +4:1. What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father +according to the flesh? + +4:2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, +but not before God. + +By works. . .Done by his own strength, without the grace of God, and +faith in him. Not before God. . .Whatever glory or applause such works +might procure from men, they would be of no value in the sight of God. + +4:3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was +reputed to him unto justice. + +Reputed, etc. . .By God, who reputeth nothing otherwise than it is. +However, we may gather from this word, that when we are justified, our +justification proceedeth from God's free grace and bounty; and not from +any efficacy which any act of ours could have of its own nature, +abstracting from God's grace. + +4:4. Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to +grace but according to debt. + +To him that worketh. . .Vis., as of his own fund, or by his own +strength. Such a man, says the apostle, challenges his reward as a debt +due to his own performances; whereas he who worketh not, that is, who +presumeth not upon any works done by his own strength, but seeketh +justice through faith and grace, is freely justified by God's grace. + +4:5. But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth +the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose +of the grace of God. + +4:6. As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God +reputeth justice without works: + +4:7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are +covered. + +Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are +covered. . .That is, blessed are those who, by doing penance, have +obtained pardon and remission of their sins, and also are covered; that +is, newly clothed with the habit of grace, and vested with the stole of +charity. + +4:8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin. + +Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin. . .That is, +blessed is the man who hath retained his baptismal innocence, that no +grievous sin can be imputed to him. And, likewise, blessed is the man, +who after fall into sin, hath done penance and leads a virtuous life, +by frequenting the sacraments necessary for obtaining the grace to +prevent a relapse, that sin is no more imputed to him. + +4:9. This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or +in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was +reputed to justice. + +In the circumcision, etc. . .That is, is it only for the Jews that are +circumcised? No, says the apostle, but also for the uncircumcised +Gentiles: who, by faith and grace, may come to justice; as Abraham did +before he was circumcised. + +4:10. How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in +uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. + +4:11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice +of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the +father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them +also it may be reputed to justice: + +4:12. And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that +are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the +faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham. + +4:13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his +seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of +faith. + +4:14. For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the +promise is made of no effect. + +Be heirs. . .That is, if they alone, who follow the ceremonies of the +law, be heirs of the blessings promised to Abraham; then that faith +which was so much praised in him, will be found to be of little value. +And the very promise will be made void, by which he was promised to be +the father, not of the Jews only, but of all nations of believers. + +4:15. For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is +there transgression. + +The law worketh wrath. . .The law, abstracting from faith and grace, +worketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many +transgressions, which provoke God's wrath. + +4:16. Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise +might be firm to all the seed: not to that only which is of the law, +but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of +us all, + +4:17. (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), +before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those +things that are not, as those that are. + +4:18. Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the +father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So +shall thy seed be. + +4:19. And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own +body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the +dead womb of Sara. + +4:20. In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was +strengthened in faith, giving glory to God: + +4:21. Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able +also to perform. + +4:22. And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice. + +4:23. Now it is not written only for him. that it was reputed to him +unto justice, + +4:24. But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in +him that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead, + +4:25. Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our +justification. + + + +Romans Chapter 5 + + +The grounds we have for hope in Christ. Sin and death came by Adam, +grace and life by Christ. + +5:1. Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, +through our Lord Jesus Christ: + +5:2. By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein +we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. + +5:3. And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that +tribulation worketh patience; + +5:4. And patience trial; and trial hope; + +5:5. And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured +forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us. + +5:6. For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the +time, die for the ungodly? + +5:7. For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man +some one would dare to die. + +5:8. But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we +were sinners according to the time. + +5:9. Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by +his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him. + +5:10. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the +death of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his +life. + +5:11. And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus +Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation. + +5:12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin +death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. + +By one man. . .Adam, from whom we all contracted original sin. + +5:13. For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, +when the law was not. + +Not imputed. . .That is, men knew not, or made no account of sin, +neither was it imputed to them, in the manner it was afterwards, when +they transgressed the known written law of God. + +5:14. But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who +have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who +is a figure of him who was to come. + +5:15. But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence +of one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the +grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. + +5:16. And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment +indeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto +justification. + +5:17. For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more +they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice +shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ. + +5:18. Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to +condemnation: so also by the justice of one, unto all men to +justification of life. + +5:19. For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so +also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just. + +5:20. Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin +abounded, grace did more abound. + +That sin might abound. . .Not as if the law were given on purpose for +sin to abound: but that it so happened through man's perversity, taking +occasion of sinning more, from the prohibition of sin. + +5:21. That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by +justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. + + + +Romans Chapter 6 + + +The Christian must die to sin and live to God. + +6:1. What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may +abound? + +6:2. God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any +longer therein? + +6:3. Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are +baptized in his death? + +6:4. For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, +as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also +may walk in newness of life. + +6:5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, +we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. + +6:6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the +body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no +longer. + +Old man--body of sin. . .Our corrupt state, subject to sin and +concupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called our old man, as our +state, reformed in and by Christ, is called the new man. And the vices +and sins, which then ruled in us are named the body of sin. + +6:7. For he that is dead is justified from sin. + +6:8. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also +together with Christ. + +6:9. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no +more. Death shall no more have dominion over him. + +6:10. For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, +he liveth unto God. + +6:11. So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto +God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. + +6:12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey +the lusts thereof. + +6:13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto +sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the +dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God. + +6:14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under +the law, but under grace. + +6:15. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but +under grace? God forbid! + +6:16. Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, +his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or +of obedience unto justice. + +6:17. But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin but have +obeyed from the heart unto that form of doctrine into which you have +been delivered. + +6:18. Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice. + +6:19. I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. +For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, +unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto +sanctification. + +6:20. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to +justice. + +6:21. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you +are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. + +6:22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you +have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. + +6:23. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life +everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord. + + + +Romans Chapter 7 + + +We are released by Christ from the law and from the guilt of sin, +though the inclination to it still tempts us. + +7:1. Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) +that the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth? + +As long as it liveth;. . .or, as long as he liveth. + +7:2. For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is +bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the +law of her husband. + +7:3. Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an +adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she +is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an +adulteress, if she be with another man. + +7:4. Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by +the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again +from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God. + +7:5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by +the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. + +7:6. But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were +detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the +oldness of the letter. + +7:7. What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not +know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law +did not say: Thou shalt not covet. + +7:8. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all +manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. + +Sin taking occasion. . .Sin, or concupiscence, which is called sin, +because it is from sin, and leads to sin, which was asleep before, was +weakened by the prohibition: the law not being the cause thereof, nor +properly giving occasion to it: but occasion being taken by our corrupt +nature to resist the commandment laid upon us. + +7:9. And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment +came, sin revived, + +7:10. And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the +same was found to be unto death to me. + +7:11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by +it killed me. + +7:12. Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and +just and good. + +7:13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But +sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in +me: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure. + +That it may appear sin, or that sin may appear, viz. . .To be the +monster it is, which is even capable to take occasion from that which +is good, to work death. + +7:14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold +under sin. + +7:15. For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good +which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do. + +I do not that good which I will, etc. . .The apostle here describes the +disorderly motions of passion and concupiscence; which oftentimes in us +get the start of reason: and by means of which even good men suffer in +the inferior appetite what their will abhors: and are much hindered in +the accomplishment of the desires of their spirit and mind. But these +evil motions, (though they are called the law of sin, because they come +from original sin, and violently tempt and incline to sin,) as long as +the will does not consent to them, are not sins, because they are not +voluntary. + +7:16. If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it +is good. + +7:17. Now then it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me. + +7:18. For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my +flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to +accomplish that which is good, I find not. + +7:19. For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will +not, that I do. + +7:20. Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: +but sin that dwelleth in me. + +7:21. I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is +present with me. + +7:22. For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward +man: + +7:23. But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of +my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members. + +7:24. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this +death? + +7:25. The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, +with the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin. + + + +Romans Chapter 8 + + +There is no condemnation to them that, being justified by Christ, walk +not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Their strong +hope and love of God. + +8:1. There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ +Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. + +8:2. For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered +me from the law of sin and of death. + +8:3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the +flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of +sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh. + +8:4. That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who +walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. + +8:5. For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are +of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things +that are of the spirit. + +8:6. For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit +is life and peace. + +8:7. Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not +subject to the law of God: neither can it be. + +8:8. And they who are in the flesh cannot please God. + +8:9. But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the +Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of +Christ, he is none of his. + +8:10. And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: +but the spirit liveth, because of justification. + +8:11. And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell +in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken +also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. + +8:12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live +according to the flesh. + +8:13. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by +the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. + +8:14. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of +God. + +8:15. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: +but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: +Abba (Father). + +8:16. For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are +the sons of God. + +The Spirit himself, etc. . .By the inward motions of divine love, and +the peace of conscience, which the children of God experience, they +have a kind of testimony of God's favour; by which they are much +strengthened in their hope of their justification and salvation; but +yet not so as to pretend to an absolute assurance: which is not usually +granted in this mortal life: during which we are taught to work out our +salvation with fear and trembling. Phil. 2.12. And that he that +thinketh himself to stand, must take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. 10.12. +See also, Rom. 11.20, 21, 22. + +8:17. And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with +Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified +with him. + +8:18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to +be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us. + +8:19. For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of +the sons of God. + +The expectation of the creature, etc. . .He speaks of the corporeal +creation, made for the use and service of man; and, by occasion of his +sin, made subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability, +tending to corruption and other defects; so that by a figure of speech +it is here said to groan and be in labour, and to long for its +deliverance, which is then to come, when sin shall reign no more; and +God shall raise the bodies and unite them to their souls never more to +separate, and to be in everlasting happiness in heaven. + +8:20. For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but +by reason of him that made it subject, in hope. + +8:21. Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the +servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children +of God. + +8:22. For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, +even till now. + +8:23. And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of +the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the +adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body. + +8:24. For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For +what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? + +8:25. But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with +patience. + +8:26. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For, we know not +what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for +us with unspeakable groanings, + +Asketh for us. . .The Spirit is said to ask, and desire for the saints, +and to pray in us; inasmuch as he inspireth prayer, and teacheth us to +pray. + +8:27. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit +desireth: because he asketh for the saints according to God. + +8:28. And we know that to them that love God all things work together +unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be +saints. + +8:29. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made +conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn +amongst many brethren. + +He also predestinated, etc. . .That is, God hath preordained that all +his elect should be conformable to the image of his Son. We must not +here offer to pry into the secrets of God's eternal election; only +firmly believe that all our good, in time and eternity, flows +originally from God's free goodness; and all our evil from man's free +will. + +8:30. And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he +called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also +glorified. + +8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is +against us? + +8:32. He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us +all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things? + +8:33. Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that +justifieth: + +8:34. Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is +risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh +intercession for us. + +8:35. Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall +tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or +persecution? Or the sword? + +8:36. (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day +long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) + +8:37. But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath +loved us. + +8:38. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor +principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor +might, + +I am sure. . .That is, I am persuaded; as it is in the Greek, pepeismai. + +8:39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to +separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. + + + +Romans Chapter 9 + + +The apostle's concern for the Jews. God's election is free and not +confined to their nation. + +9:1. I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me +witness in the Holy Ghost: + +9:2. That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart. + +9:3. For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my +brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh: + +Anathema;. . .A curse. The apostle's concern and love for his countrymen +the Jews was so great, that he was willing to suffer even an anathema, +or curse, for their sake; or any evil that could come upon him, without +his offending God. + +9:4. Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children +and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the +service of God and the promises: + +9:5. Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the +flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen. + +9:6. Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not +Israelites that are of Israel. + +All are not Israelites, etc. . .Not all, who are the carnal seed of +Israel, are true Israelites in God's account: who, as by his free +grace, he heretofore preferred Isaac before Ismael, and Jacob before +Esau, so he could, and did by the like free grace, election and mercy, +raise up spiritual children by faith to Abraham and Israel, from among +the Gentiles, and prefer them before the carnal Jews. + +9:7. Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but +in Isaac shall thy seed be called. + +9:8. That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are +the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are +accounted for the seed. + +9:9. For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I +come. And Sara shall have a son. + +9:10. And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of +Isaac our father. + +9:11. For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or +evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand): + +Not yet born, etc. . .By this example of these twins, and the preference +of the younger to the elder, the drift of the apostle is, to shew that +God, in his election, mercy and grace, is not tied to any particular +nation, as the Jews imagined; nor to any prerogative of birth, or any +forgoing merits. For as, antecedently to his grace, he sees no merits +in any, but finds all involved in sin, in the common mass of +condemnation; and all children of wrath: there is no one whom he might +not justly leave in that mass; so that whomsoever he delivers from it, +he delivers in his mercy: and whomsoever he leaves in it, he leaves in +his justice. As when, of two equally criminal, the king is pleased out +of pure mercy to pardon one, whilst he suffers justice to take place in +the execution of the other. + +9:12. Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The +elder shall serve the younger. + +9:13. As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated. + +9:14. What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid! + +9:15. For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have +mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy. + +9:16. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, +but of God that sheweth mercy. + +Not of him that willeth, etc. . .That is, by any power or strength of +his own, abstracting from the grace of God. + +9:17. For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised +thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared +throughout all the earth. + +To this purpose, etc. . .Not that God made him on purpose that he should +sin, and so be damned; but foreseeing his obstinacy in sin, and the +abuse of his own free will, he raised him up to be a mighty king, to +make a more remarkable example of him: and that his power might be +better known, and his justice in punishing him, published throughout +the earth. + +9:18. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he +hardeneth. + +He hardeneth. . .Not by being the cause or author of his sin, but by +withholding his grace, and so leaving him in his sin, in punishment of +his past demerits. + +9:19. Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For +who resisteth his will? + +9:20. O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing +formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus? + +9:21. Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to +make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? + +The potter. . .This similitude is used only to shew that we are not to +dispute with our Maker, nor to reason with him why he does not give as +much grace to one as to another; for since the whole lump of our clay +is vitiated by sin, it is owing to his goodness and mercy, that he +makes out of it so many vessels of honor; and it is no more than just, +that others, in punishment of their unrepented sins, should be given up +to be vessels of dishonor. + +9:22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power +known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for +destruction, + +9:23. That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of +mercy which he hath prepared unto glory? + +9:24. Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also +of the Gentiles. + +9:25. As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my +people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not +obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy. + +9:26. And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are +not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God. + +9:27. And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the +children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. + +A remnant. . .That is, a small number only of the children of Israel +shall be converted and saved. How perversely is this text quoted for +the salvation of men of all religions, when it speaks only of the +converts of the children of Israel! + +9:28. For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because +a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth. + +9:29. And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a +seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha. + +9:30. What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after +justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith. + +9:31. But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come +unto the law of justice. + +9:32. Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of +works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. + +9:33. As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a +rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be +confounded. + + + +Romans Chapter 10 + + +The end of the law is faith in Christ. which the Jews refusing to +submit to, cannot be justified. + +10:1. Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is +for them unto salvation. + +10:2. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not +according to knowledge. + +10:3. For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish +their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God. + +The justice of God. . .That is, the justice which God giveth us through +Christ; as on the other hand, the Jews' own justice is, that which they +pretended to by their own strength, or by the observance of the law, +without faith in Christ. + +10:4. For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that +believeth. + +10:5. For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man +that shall do it shall live by it. + +10:6. But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy +heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down; + +10:7. Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring up Christ +again from the dead. + +10:8. But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee; even in thy +mouth and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach. + +10:9. For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in +thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be +saved. + +Thou shalt be saved. . .To confess the Lord Jesus, and to call upon the +name of the Lord (ver. 13) is not barely the professing a belief in the +person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine, +and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will +save no man. St. Matt. 7.21. + +10:10. For, with the heart, we believe unto justice: but, with the +mouth, confession is made unto salvation. + +10:11. For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him shall not be +confounded. + +10:12. For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the +same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him. + +10:13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be +saved. + +10:14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? +Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how +shall they hear without a preacher? + +10:15. And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: +How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of +them that bring glad tidings of good things? + +Unless they be sent. . .Here is an evident proof against all new +teachers, who have all usurped to themselves the ministry without any +lawful mission, derived by succession from the apostles, to whom Christ +said, John 20.21, As my Father hath sent me, I also send you. + +10:16. But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath +believed our report? + +10:17. Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ. + +10:18. But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath +gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the +whole world. + +10:19. But I say: Hath not Israel known? First, Moses saith: I will +provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation: by a foolish +nation I will anger you. + +10:20. But Isaias is bold, and saith: I was found by them that did not +seek me. I appeared openly to them that asked not after me. + +10:21. But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands +to a people that believeth not and contradicteth me. + + + +Romans Chapter 11 + + +God hath not cast off all Israel. The Gentiles must not be proud but +stand in faith and fear. + +11:1. I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I +also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. + +11:2. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not +what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against +Israel? + +11:3. Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy +altars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life. + +11:4. But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven +thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal. + +Seven thousand, etc. . .This is very ill alleged by some, against the +perpetual visibility of the church of Christ; the more, because however +the number of the faithful might be abridged by the persecution of +Jezabel in the kingdom of the ten tribes, the church was at the same +time in a most flourishing condition (under Asa and Josaphat) in the +kingdom of Judah. + +11:5. Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved +according to the election of grace. + +11:6. And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no +more grace. + +It is not now by works, etc. . .If salvation were to come by works, done +by nature, without faith and grace, salvation would not be a grace or +favour, but a debt; but such dead works are indeed of no value in the +sight of God towards salvation. It is not the same with regard to works +done with, and by, God's grace; for to such works as these, he has +promised eternal salvation. + +11:7. What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but +the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded. + +11:8. As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of +insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should +not hear, until this present day. + +God hath given them, etc. . .Not by his working or acting in them; but +by his permission, and by withdrawing his grace in punishment of their +obstinacy. + +11:9. And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a +stumbling block and a recompense unto them. + +11:10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down +their back always. + +11:11. I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God +forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that +they may be emulous of them. + +That they should fall. . .The nation of the Jews is not absolutely and +without remedy cast off for ever; but in part only, (many thousands of +them having been at first converted,) and for a time; which fall of +theirs, God has been pleased to turn to the good of the Gentiles. + +11:12. Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the +diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the +fulness of them? + +11:13. For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle +of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry, + +11:14. If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my +flesh and may save some of them. + +11:15. For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what +shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? + +11:16. For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the +root be holy, so are the branches. + +11:17. And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild +olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of +the fatness of the olive tree: + +11:18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest +not the root: but the root thee. + +11:19. Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be +grafted in. + +11:20. Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou +standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. + +Thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear. . .We see here that +he who standeth by faith may fall from it; and therefore must live in +fear, and not in the vain presumption and security of modern sectaries. + +11:21. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest +perhaps also he spare not thee. + +11:22. See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them +indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of +God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. + +Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. . .The Gentiles are here +admonished not to be proud, nor to glory against the Jews: but to take +occasion rather from their fall to fear and to be humble, lest they be +cast off. Not that the whole church of Christ can ever fall from him; +having been secured by so many divine promises in holy writ; but that +each one in particular may fall; and therefore all in general are to be +admonished to beware of that, which may happen to any one in +particular. + +11:23. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be +grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. + +11:24. For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is +natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good +olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be +grafted into their own olive tree? + +11:25. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery +(lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part +has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come +in. + +11:26. And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall +come out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness +from Jacob. + +11:27. And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their +sins. + +11:28. As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your +sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of +the fathers. + +11:29. For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. + +For the gifts and the calling of God are without. . .his repenting +himself of them; for the promises of God are unchangeable, nor can he +repent of conferring his gifts. + +11:30. For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have +obtained mercy, through their unbelief: + +11:31. So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they +also may obtain mercy. + +11:32. For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy +on all. + +Concluded all in unbelief. . .He hath found all nations, both Jews and +Gentiles, in unbelief and sin; not by his causing, but by the abuse of +their own free will; so that their calling and election is purely owing +to his mercy. + +11:33. O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of +God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his +ways! + +11:34. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his +counsellor? + +11:35. Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made +him? + +11:36. For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be +glory for ever. Amen. + + + +Romans Chapter 12 + + +Lessons of Christian virtues. + +12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you +present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your +reasonable service. + +12:2. And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the +newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the +acceptable and the perfect will of God. + +12:3. For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among +you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise +unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the +measure of faith. + +12:4. For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have +not the same office: + +12:5. So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members +one of another: + +12:6. And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given +us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith; + +12:7. Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine; + +12:8. He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; +he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with +cheerfulness. + +12:9. Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, +cleaving to that which is good, + +12:10. Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour +preventing one another. + +12:11. In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the +Lord. + +12:12. Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer. + +12:13. Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing +hospitality. + +12:14. Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. + +12:15. Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep. + +12:16. Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, +but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits. + +12:17. To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not +only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men. + +12:18. If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all +men. + +12:19. Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto +wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the +Lord. + +12:20. But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give +him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his +head. + +12:21. Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good. + + + +Romans Chapter 13 + + +Lessons of obedience to superiors and mutual charity. + +13:1. Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power +but from God: and those that are ordained of God. + +13:2. Therefore, he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of +God. And they that resist purchase to themselves damnation. + +13:3. For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. +Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and +thou shalt have praise from the same. + +13:4. For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that +which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is +God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil. + +13:5. Wherefore be subject of necessity: not only for wrath, but also +for conscience' sake. + +13:6. For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of +God, serving unto this purpose. + +13:7. Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute +is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom +honour. + +13:8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth +his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. + +13:9. For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou +shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not +covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this +word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. + +13:10. The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the +fulfilling of the law. + +13:11. And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to +rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. + +13:12. The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore +cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. + +13:13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and +drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and +envy. + +13:14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for +the flesh in its concupiscences. + + + +Romans Chapter 14 + + +The strong must bear with the weak. Cautions against judging and giving +scandal. + +14:1. Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes +about thoughts. + +14:2. For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is +weak, let him eat herbs. + +Eat all things. . .Viz., without observing the distinction of clean and +unclean meats, prescribed by the law of Moses: which was now no longer +obligatory. Some weak Christians, converted from among the Jews, as we +here gather from the apostle, made a scruple of eating such meats as +were deemed unclean by the law; such as swine's flesh, etc., which the +stronger sort of Christians did eat without scruple. Now the apostle, +to reconcile them together, exhorts the former not to judge or condemn +the latter, using their Christian liberty; and the latter, to take care +not to despise or scandalize their weaker brethren, either by bringing +them to eat what in their conscience they think they should not, or by +giving them such offence, as to endanger the driving them thereby from +the Christian religion. + +14:3. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that +eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him +to him. + +14:4. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord +he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him +stand. + +14:5. For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every +day. Let every man abound in his own sense. + +Between day, etc. . .Still observing the sabbaths and festivals of the +law. + +14:6. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that +eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that +eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God. + +14:7. For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself. + +14:8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we +die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are +the Lord's. + +14:9. For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord +both of the dead and of the living. + +14:10. But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou +despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of +Christ. + +14:11. For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall +bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God. + +14:12. Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for +himself. + +14:13. Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this +rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your +brother's way. + +14:14. I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is +unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, +to him it is unclean. + +14:15. For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou +walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, +for whom Christ died. + +14:16. Let not then our good be evil spoken of. + +14:17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and +peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. + +14:18. For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved +of men. + +14:19. Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and +keep the things that are of edification, one towards another. + +14:20. Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are +clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. + +14:21. It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing +whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak. + +14:22. Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he +that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth. + +14:23. But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of +faith. For all that is not of faith is sin. + +Discerneth. . .That is, distinguisheth between meats, and eateth against +his conscience, what he deems unclean. Of faith. . .By faith is here +understood judgment and conscience: to act against which is always a +sin. + + + +Romans Chapter 15 + + +He exhorts them to be all of one mind and promises to come and see +them. + +15:1. Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the +weak and not to please ourselves. + +15:2. Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to +edification. + +15:3. For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The +reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. + +15:4. For what things soever were written were written for our +learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we +might have hope. + +15:5. Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one +mind, one towards another, according to Jesus Christ: + +15:6. That with one mind and with one mouth you may glorify God and the +Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +15:7. Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, +unto the honour of God. + +15:8. For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for +the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: + +Minister of the circumcision. . .That is, executed his office and +ministry towards the Jews, the people of the circumcision. + +15:9. But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is +written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles +and will sing to thy name. + +15:10. And again he saith: rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people. + +15:11. And again: praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles: and magnify him, +all ye people. + +15:12. And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he +that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall +hope. + +15:13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in +believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy +Ghost. + +15:14. And I myself also, my brethren, am assured of you that you also +are full of love, replenished with all knowledge, so that you are able +to admonish one another. + +15:15. But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, +as it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me +from God, + +15:16. That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the +Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the +Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost. + +15:17. I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God. + +15:18. For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ +worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, + +15:19. By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy +Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I +have replenished the gospel of Christ. + +15:20. And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, +lest I should build upon another man a foundation. + +15:21. But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of shall +see: and they that have not heard shall understand. + +15:22. For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to +you and have been kept away till now. + +15:23. But now, having no more place in these countries and having a +great desire these many years past to come unto you, + +15:24. When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that, +as I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if +first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you. + +15:25. But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints. + +15:26. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a +contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem. + +15:27. For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if +the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they +ought also in carnal things to minister to them. + +15:28. When therefore I shall have accomplished this and consigned to +them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. + +15:29. And I know that when I come to you I shall come in the abundance +of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. + +15:30. I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ +and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers +for me to God, + +15:31. That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea +and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to +the saints. + +15:32. That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be +refreshed with you. + +15:33. Now the God of peace be with, you all. Amen. + + + +Romans Chapter 16 + + +He concludes with salutations, bidding them beware of all that should +oppose the doctrine they had learned. + +16:1. And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of +the church, that is in Cenchrae: + +16:2. That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you +assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she +also hath assisted many, and myself also. + +16:3. Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers, in Christ Jesus + +16:4. (Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I +only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles), + +16:5. And the church which is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my +beloved: who is the firstfruits of Asia in Christ. + +16:6. Salute Mary, who hath laboured much among you. + +16:7. Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: +who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. + +16:8. Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the Lord. + +16:9. Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus and Stachys, my +beloved. + +16:10. Salute Apellas, approved in Christ. + +16:11. Salute them that are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodian, +my kinsman. Salute them that are of Narcissus' household, who are in +the Lord. + +16:12. Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute +Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord. + +16:13. Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine. + +16:14. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes: and the +brethren that are with them. + +16:15. Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and +Olympias: and all the saints that are with them. + +16:16. Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ +salute you. + +16:17. Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions +and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid +them. + +16:18. For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own +belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the +innocent. + +16:19. For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice +therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good and simple in +evil. + +16:20. And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The +grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. + +16:21. Timothy, my fellow labourer, saluteth you: and Lucius and Jason +and Sosipater, my kinsmen. + +16:22. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. + +16:23. Caius, my host, and the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the +treasurer of the city, saluteth you: and Quartus, a brother. + +16:24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. + +16:25. Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel +and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the +mystery which was kept secret from eternity; + +16:26. (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, +according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of +faith) known among all nations: + +16:27. To God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, to whom be honour +and glory for ever and ever. Amen. + + + + +THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS + + + +St. Paul, having planted the faithful in Corinth, where he had preached +a year and a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. After +being there three years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians +and sent it by the same persons, Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus, +who had brought their letter to him. It was written about twenty-four +years after our Lord's Ascension and contains several matters +appertaining to faith and morals and also to ecclesiastical discipline. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 1 + + +He reproveth their dissensions about their teachers. The world was to +be saved by preaching of the cross, and not by human wisdom or +eloquence. + +1:1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, +and Sosthenes a brother, + +1:2. To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are +sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke +the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours. + +1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:4. I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that +is given you in Christ Jesus: + +1:5. That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and +in all knowledge; + +1:6. As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, + +1:7. So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the +manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:8. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days +of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:9. God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his +Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. + +1:10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus +Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms +among you: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same +judgment. + +1:11. For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them +that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. + +1:12. Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; +and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. + +1:13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? Or were you +baptized in the name of Paul? + +1:14. I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and +Caius: + +1:15. Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name. + +1:16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know +not whether I baptized any other. + +1:17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not +in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. + +1:18. For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is +foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the +power of God. + +1:19. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the +prudence of the prudent I will reject. + +1:20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of +this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? + +1:21. For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew +not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save +them that believe. + +1:22. For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after +wisdom. + +1:23. But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a +stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness: + +1:24. But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the +power of God and the wisdom of God. + +1:25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of +God is stronger than men. + +The foolishness, etc. . .That is to say, what appears foolish to the +world in the ways of God, is indeed most wise; and what appears weak is +indeed above all the strength and comprehension of man. + +1:26. For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise +according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble. + +1:27. But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may +confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, +that he may confound the strong. + +1:28. And the base things of the world and the things that are +contemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might +bring to nought things that are: + +1:29. That no flesh should glory in his sight. + +1:30. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us +wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption: + +1:31. That, as it is written: He that glorieth may glory in the Lord. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 2 + + +His preaching was not in loftiness of words, but in spirit and power. +And the wisdom he taught was not to be understood by the worldly wise +or sensual man, but only by the spiritual man. + +2:1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of +speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. + +2:2. For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus +Christ: and him crucified. + +2:3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. + +2:4. And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of +human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power: + +2:5. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the +power of God. + +2:6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of +this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought. + +2:7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is +hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: + +2:8. Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had +known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. + +2:9. But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: +neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath +prepared for them that love him. + +2:10. But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit +searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. + +2:11. For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man +that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but +the Spirit of God. + +2:12. Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the +Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us +from God. + +2:13. Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human +wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things +with spiritual. + +2:14. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the +Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, +because it is spiritually examined. + +The sensual man--the spiritual man. . .The sensual man is either he who +is taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections; +or he who measureth divine mysteries by natural reason, sense, and +human wisdom only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the things +of God. Whereas the spiritual man is he who, in the mysteries of +religion, takes not human sense for his guide: but submits his judgment +to the decisions of the church, which he is commanded to hear and obey. +For Christ hath promised to remain to the end of the world with his +church, and to direct her in all things by the Spirit of truth. + +2:15. But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is +judged of no man. + +2:16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct +him? But we have the mind of Christ. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 3 + + +They must not contend about their teachers, who are but God's ministers +and accountable to him. Their works shall be tried by fire. + +3:1. And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as +unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. + +3:2. I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. +But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal. + +3:3. For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you +not carnal and walk you not according to man? + +3:4. For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and another: I am of +Apollo: are you not men? What then is Apollo and what is Paul? + +3:5. The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as +the Lord hath given. + +3:6. I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase. + +3:7. Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that +watereth: but God that giveth the increase. + +3:8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man +shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour. + +3:9. For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are +God's building. + +3:10. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise +architect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon. +But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. + +3:11. For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid: +which is Christ Jesus. + +3:12. Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, +precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: + +Upon this foundation. . .The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or +the true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this +foundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more +perfect preaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and +stubble, such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who +affected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such practice as is +mixed with much imperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the +Lord, and his fiery trial, (in the particular judgment immediately +after death,) shall make manifest of what sort every man's work has +been: of which, during this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For +then the fire of God's judgment shall try every man's work. And they, +whose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall +suffer loss; these works being found to be of no value; yet they +themselves, having built upon the right foundation, (by living and +dying in the true faith and in the state of grace, though with some +imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as by fire; being liable to this +punishment, by reason of the wood, hay, and stubble, which was mixed +with their building. + +3:13. Every man's work shall be manifest. For the day of the Lord shall +declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall +try every man's work, of what sort it is. + +3:14. If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall +receive a reward. + +3:15. If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall +be saved, yet so as by fire. + +3:16. Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit +of God dwelleth in you? + +3:17. But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. +For the temple of God is holy, which you are. + +3:18. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise +in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. + +3:19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is +written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness. + +3:20. And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they +are vain. + +3:21. Let no man therefore glory in men. + +3:22. For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas, +or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. +For all are yours. + +3:23. And you are Christ's. And Christ is God's. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 4 + + +God's ministers are not to be judged. He reprehends their boasting of +their preachers and describes the treatment the apostles every where +met with. + +4:1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the +dispensers of the mysteries of God. + +4:2. Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found +faithful. + +4:3. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's +day. But neither do I judge my own self. + +4:4. For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby +justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. + +4:5. Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who +both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make +manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have +praise from God. + +4:6. But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to +myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one +be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is +written. + +4:7. For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not +received, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou +hadst not received it? + +4:8. You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us; +and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you. + +4:9. For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it +were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and +to angels and to men. + +4:10. We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are +weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. + +4:11. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and +are buffeted and have no fixed abode. + +4:12. And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we +bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it. + +4:13. We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of +this world, the offscouring of all, even until now. + +4:14. I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as +my dearest children. + +4:15. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many +fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you. + +4:16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of +Christ. + +4:17. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son +and faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which +are in Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church. + +4:18. As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up. + +4:19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, +not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. + +4:20. For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power. + +4:21. What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and +in the spirit of meekness? + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 5 + + +He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes them to purge +out the old leaven. + +5:1. It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and +such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should +have his father's wife. + +5:2. And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might +be taken away from among you that hath done this thing. + +5:3. I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already +judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, + +5:4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together +and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus: + +5:5. To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, +that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +5:6. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven +corrupteth the whole lump? + +5:7. Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are +unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. + +5:8. Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the +leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of +sincerity and truth. + +9. I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators. + +5:10. I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the +covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you +must needs go out of this world. + +5:11. But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man +that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of +idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not +so much as to eat. + +5:12. For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you +judge them that are within? + +5:13. For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one +from among yourselves. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 6 + + +He blames them for going to law before unbelievers. Of sins that +exclude from the kingdom of heaven. The evil of fornication. + +6:1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged +before the unjust: and not before the saints? + +6:2. Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the +world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest +matters? + +6:3. Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of +this world? + +6:4. If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this +world, set them to judge who are the most despised in the church. + +6:5. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any +one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren? + +6:6. But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before +unbelievers. + +6:7. Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have +law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do +you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? + +A fault. . .Lawsuits can hardly ever be without a fault, on the one side +or the other; and oftentimes on both sides. + +6:8. But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren. + +6:9. Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? +Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: + +6:10. Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor +covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the +kingdom of God. + +6:11. And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are +sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ +and the Spirit of our God. + +6:12. All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. +All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power +of any. + +All things are lawful, etc. . .That is, all indifferent things are +indeed lawful, inasmuch as they are not prohibited; but oftentimes they +are not expedient; as in the case of lawsuits, etc. And much less would +it be expedient to be enslaved by an irregular affection to any thing, +how indifferent soever. + +6:13. Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall +destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for +the Lord: and the Lord for the body. + +6:14. Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his +power. + +6:15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I +then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? +God forbid! + +6:16. Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one +body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh. + +6:17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. + +6:18. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: +but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. + +6:19. Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy +Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own? + +6:20. For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in +your body. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 7 + + +Lessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is preferable to a +married state. + +7:1. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for +a man not to touch a woman. + +7:2. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and +let every woman have her own husband. + +Have his own wife. . .That is, keep to his wife, which he hath. His +meaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary, he +would have them rather continue as they are. (Ver. 7:8.) But he speaks +here to them that are already married; who must not depart from one +another, but live together as they ought to do in the marriage state. + +7:3. Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in +like manner to the husband. + +7:4. The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in +like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the +wife. + +7:5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, +that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest +Satan tempt you for your incontinency. + +7:6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. + +By indulgence. . .That is, by a condescension to your weakness. + +7:7. For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath +his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after +that. + +7:8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them +if they so continue, even as I. + +7:9. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is +better to marry than to be burnt. + +If they do not contain, etc. . .This is spoken of such as are free, and +not of such as, by vow, have given their first faith to God; to whom if +they will use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse the gift +of continency. Some translators have corrupted this text, by rendering +it, if they cannot contain. + +7:10. But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth +that the wife depart not from her husband. + +7:11. And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to +her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. + +7:12. For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife +that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put +her away. + +I speak, not the Lord. . .Viz., by any express commandment, or +ordinance. + +7:13. And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent +to dwell with her: let her not put away her husband. + +7:14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: +and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband. +Otherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy. + +Is sanctified. . .The meaning is not, that the faith of the husband or +the wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their +children, in the state of grace and salvation; but that it is very +often an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true +faith. + +7:15. But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or +sister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in +peace. + +7:16. For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy +husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? + +7:17. But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called +every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach. + +7:18. Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure +uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be +circumcised. + +7:19. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the +observance of the commandments of God. + +7:20. Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called. + +7:21. Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou +mayest be made free, use it rather. + +7:22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the +freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the +bondman of Christ. + +7:23. You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men. + +7:24. Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide +with God. + +7:25. Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I +give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. + +7:26. I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: +that it is good for a man so to be. + +7:27. Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed +from a wife? Seek not a wife. + +7:28. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin +marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation +of the flesh. But I spare you. + +7:29. This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, +that they also who have wives be as if they had none: + +7:30. And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that +rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they +possessed not: + +7:31. And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the +fashion of this world passeth away. + +7:32. But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without +a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may +please God. + +7:33. But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the +world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided. + +7:34. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of +the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that +is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her +husband. + +7:35. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, +but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend +upon the Lord, without impediment. + +7:36. But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to +his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him +do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry. + +Let him do what he will; he sinneth not, etc. . .The meaning is not, as +libertines would have it, that persons may do what they will and not +sin, provided they afterwards marry; but that the father, with regard +to the giving his virgin in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that +it will be no sin to him if she marry. + +7:37. For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his heart, having +no necessity, but having power of his own will: and hath judged this in +his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well. + +7:38. Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: +and he that giveth her not doth better. + +7:39. A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if +her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: +only in the Lord. + +7:40. But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my +counsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 8 + + +Though an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols are not to be +eaten, for fear of scandal. + +8:1. Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know +we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth. + +Knowledge puffeth up, etc. . .Knowledge, without charity and humility, +serveth only to puff persons up. + +8:2. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet +known as he ought to know. + +8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known by him. + +8:4. But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an +idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one. + +8:5. For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on +earth (for there be gods many and lords many): + +Gods many, etc. . .Reputed for such among the heathens. + +8:6. Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all +things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all +things, and we by him. + +8:7. But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this +present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an +idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. + +8:8. But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall +we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less. + +8:9. But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a +stumblingblock to the weak. + +8:10. For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the +idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to +eat those things which are sacrificed to idols? + +8:11. And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom +Christ hath died? + +8:12. Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak +conscience, you sin against Christ. + +8:13. Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, +lest I should scandalize my brother. + +If meat scandalize. . .That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 9 + + +The apostle did not make use of his power of being maintained at the +charges of those to whom he preached, that he might give no hindrance +to the gospel. Of running in the race and striving for the mastery. + +9:1. Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus +our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? + +9:2. And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For +you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. + +9:3. My defence with them that do examine me is this. + +9:4. Have not we power to eat and to drink? + +9:5. Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the +rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? + +A woman, a sister. . .Some erroneous translators have corrupted this +text by rendering it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St. +Paul had no wife (chap. 7 ver. 7, 8) and that he only speaks of such +devout women, as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation, waited +upon the preachers of the gospel, and supplied them with necessaries. + +9:6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this? + +9:7. Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who +planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth +the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? + +9:8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also +say; these things? + +9:9. For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the +mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for +oxen? + +9:10. Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are +written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope +and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit. + +9:11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter +if we reap your carnal things? + +9:12. If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? +Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest +we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. + +9:13. Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things +that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with +the altar? + +9:14. So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should +live by the gospel. + +9:15. But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written +these things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for +me to die rather than that any man should make my glory void. + +9:16. For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity +lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. + +It is no glory. . .That is, I have nothing to glory of. + +9:17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against +my will, a dispensation is committed to me. + +9:18. What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver +the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. + +9:19. For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of +all, that I might gain the more. + +9:20. And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: + +9:22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became +all things to all men, that I might save all. + +9:23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made +partaker thereof. + +9:24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but +one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain. + +9:25. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself +from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible +crown: but we an incorruptible one. + +9:26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as +one beating the air. + +9:27. But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest +perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a +castaway. + +I chastise, etc. . .Here St. Paul shews the necessity of self-denial and +mortification, to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 10 + + +By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too +much upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the +service of idols and from things offered to idols. + +10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers +were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. + +10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea: + +In Moses. . .Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in +figure, by passing under the cloud, and through the sea; and they +partook of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the +manna, (called here a spiritual food because it was a figure of the +true bread which comes down from heaven,) and drinking the water, +miraculously brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock, +because it was also a figure of Christ. + +10:3. And did all eat the same spiritual food: + +10:4. And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the +spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.) + +10:5. But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were +overthrown in the desert. + +10:6. Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not +covet evil things, as they also coveted. + +10:7. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: +The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. + +10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed +fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand. + +10:9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished +by the serpent. + +10:10. Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were +destroyed by the destroyer. + +10:11. Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are +written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come. + +The ends of the world. . .That is, the last ages. + +10:12. Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed +lest he fall. + +10:13. Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And +God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which +you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be +able to bear it. + +Or. . .no temptation hath taken hold of you. . .or come upon you as yet, +but what is human, or incident to man. Issue. . .or a way to escape. + +10:14. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols. + +10:15. I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say. + +10:16. The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the +communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it +not the partaking of the body of the Lord? + +Which we bless. . .Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking +of the body and blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and becoming +thereby one mystical body with Christ. From whence he infers, ver. 21, +that they who are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic +sacrifice and sacrament, must not be made partakers with devils by +eating of the meats sacrificed to them. + +10:17. For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of +one bread. + +One bread. . .or, as it may be rendered, agreeably both to the Latin and +Greek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body, who +partake of that one bread. For it is by our communicating with Christ, +and with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed +into one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread, compounded of +many grains of corn, closely united together. + +10:18. Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of +the sacrifices partakers of the altar? + +10:19. What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols +is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing? + +10:20. But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to +devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made +partakers with devils. + +10:21. You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of +devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the +table of devils. + +10:22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All +things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient. + +10:23. All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify. + +10:24. Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's. + +10:25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for +conscience' sake. + +10:26. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. + +10:27. If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing +to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for +conscience' sake. + +10:28. But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not +eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake. + +10:29. Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my +liberty judged by another man's conscience? + +10:30. If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that +for which I give thanks? + +10:31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, +do all to the glory of God. + +10:32. Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the +church of God: + +10:33. As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which +is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 11 + + +Women must have a covering over their heads. He blameth the abuses of +their love feasts and upon that occasion treats of the Blessed +Sacrament. + +11:1. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ. + +11:2. Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of +me and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you. + +11:3. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ: +and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God. + +11:4. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraceth +his head. + +11:5. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered +disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. + +11:6. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a +shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head. + +11:7. The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the +image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. + +11:8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. + +11:9. For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the +man. + +11:10. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because +of the angels. + +A power. . .that is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the +power of her husband: and this, the apostle adds, because of the +angels, who are present in the assemblies of the faithful. + +11:11. But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman +without the man, in the Lord. + +11:12. For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: +but all things of God. + +11:13. You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God +uncovered? + +11:14. Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he +nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him? + +11:15. But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her +hair is given to her for a covering. + +11:16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, +nor the Church of God. + +11:17. Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not +for the better, but for the worse. + +11:18. For first of all I hear that when you come together in the +church, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it. + +11:19. For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are +approved may be made manifest among you. + +There must be also heresies. . .By reason of the pride and perversity of +man's heart; not by God's will or appointment; who nevertheless draws +good out of this evil, manifesting, by that occasion, who are the good +and firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable. + +11:20. When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now +to eat the Lord's supper. + +The Lord's supper. . .So the apostle here calls the charity feasts +observed by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the +Corinthians, on these occasions; which were the more criminal, because +these feasts were accompanied with the celebrating of the eucharistic +sacrifice and sacrament. + +11:21. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one +indeed is hungry and another is drunk. + +11:22. What, have you no houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye +the church of God and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say +to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not. + +11:23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto +you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took +bread, + +11:24. And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my +body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration +of me. + +11:25. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: +This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as +you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. + +11:26. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, +you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. + +11:27. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice +of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of +the Lord. + +Or drink. . .Here erroneous translators corrupted the text, by putting +and drink (contrary to the original) instead of or drink. + +Guilty of the body, etc., not discerning the body, etc. . .This +demonstrates the real presence of the body and blood of Christ, even to +the unworthy communicant; who otherwise could not be guilty of the body +and blood of Christ, or justly condemned for not discerning the Lord's +body. + +11:28. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread +and drink of the chalice. + +Drink of the chalice. . .This is not said by way of command, but by way +of allowance, viz., where and when it is agreeable to the practice and +discipline of the church. + +11:29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh +judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. + +11:30. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many +sleep. + +11:31. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. + +11:32. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we +be not condemned with this world. + +11:33. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for +one another. + +11:34. If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not +together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 12 + + +Of the diversity of spiritual gifts. The members of the mystical body, +like those of the natural body, must mutually cherish one another. + +12:1. Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have +you ignorant. + +12:2. You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, +according as you were led. + +12:3. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the +Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord +Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. + +12:4. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit. + +12:5. And there are diversities of ministries. but the same Lord. + +12:6. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who +worketh all in all. + +12:7. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto +profit. + +12:8. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to +another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: + +12:9. To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of +healing in one Spirit: + +12:10. To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to +another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of +tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches. + +12:11. But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing +to every one according as he will. + +12:12. For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the +members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also +is Christ. + +12:13. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether +Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all +been made to drink. + +12:14. For the body also is not one member, but many. + +12:15. If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of +the body: Is it therefore not of the Body? + +12:16. And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of +the body: Is it therefore not of the body? + +12:17. If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If +the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? + +12:18. But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body +as it hath pleased him. + +12:19. And if they all were one member, where would be the body? + +12:20. But now there are many members indeed, yet one body. + +12:21. And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help. Nor +again the head to the feet: I have no need of you. + +12:22. Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of +the body are more necessary + +12:23. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the +body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our +uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. + +12:24. But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the +body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour. + +12:25. That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might +be mutually careful one for another. + +12:26. And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with +it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it. + +12:27. Now you are the body of Christ and members of member. + +12:28. And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles, +secondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the +graces of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, +interpretations of speeches. + +12:29. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors? + +12:30. Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing? Do +all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? + +12:31. But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a +more excellent way. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 13 + + +Charity is to be preferred before all gifts. + +13:1. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not +charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. + +13:2. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and +all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove +mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. + +13:3. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if +I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it +profiteth me nothing. + +13:4. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not +perversely, is not puffed up, + +13:5. Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, +thinketh no evil: + +13:6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth: + +13:7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, +endureth all things. + +13:8. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void +or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed. + +13:9. For we know in part: and we prophesy in part. + +13:10. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part +shall be done away. + +13:11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, +I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things +of a child. + +13:12. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to +face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known. + +13:13. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but +the greatest of these is charity. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 14 + + +The gift of prophesying is to be preferred before that of speaking +strange tongues. + +14:1. Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather +that you may prophesy. + +Prophesy. . .That is, declare or expound the mysteries of faith. + +14:2. For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto +God: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries. + +Not unto men. . .Viz., so as to be heard, that is, so as to be +understood by them. + +14:3. But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and +exhortation and comfort. + +14:4. He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that +prophesieth, edifieth the church. + +14:5. And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to +prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with +tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive +edification. + +14:6. But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what +shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in +knowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine? + +14:7. Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, +except they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is +piped or harped? + +14:8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare +himself to the battle? + +14:9. So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how +shall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air. + +14:10. There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world: +and none is without voice. + +14:11. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to +whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me. + +14:12. So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to +abound unto the edifying of the church. + +Of spirits. . .Of spiritual gifts. + +14:13. And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he +may interpret. + +14:14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth: but my +understanding is without fruit. + +14:15. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also +with the understanding, I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also +with the understanding. + +14:16. Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that +holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because +he knoweth not what thou sayest. + +Amen. . .The unlearned, not knowing that you are then blessing, will not +be qualified to join with you by saying Amen to your blessing. The use +or abuse of strange tongues, of which the apostle here speaks, does not +regard the public liturgy of the church, (in which strange tongues were +never used,) but certain conferences of the faithful, ver. 26, etc., in +which, meeting together, they discovered to one another their various +miraculous gifts of the Spirit, common in those primitive times; +amongst which the apostle prefers that of prophesying before that of +speaking strange tongues, because it was more to the public +edification. Where also not, that the Latin, used in our liturgy, is so +far from being a strange or unknown tongue, that it is perhaps the best +known tongue in the world. + +14:17. For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not +edified. + +14:18. I thank my God I speak with all your tongues. + +14:19. But in the church I had rather speak five words with my +understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words +in a tongue. + +14:20. Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be +children: and in sense be perfect. + +14:21. In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will +speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord. + +14:22. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to +unbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers. + +14:23. If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and +all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or +infidels, will they not say that you are mad? + +14:24. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or +an unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all. + +14:25. The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down +on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed. + +14:26. How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of +you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, +hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification. + +14:27. If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by +three, and in course: and let one interpret. + +14:28. But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the +church and speak to himself and to God. + +14:29. And let the prophets speak, two or three: and let the rest +judge. + +14:30. But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first +hold his peace. + +14:31. For you may all prophesy, one by one, that all may learn and all +may be exhorted. + +14:32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. + +14:33. For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I +teach in all the churches of the saints. + +14:34. Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted +them to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith. + +14:35. But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at +home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church. + +14:36. Or did the word of God come out from you? Or came it only unto +you? + +14:37. If any seem to be a prophet or spiritual, let him know the +things that I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord. + +14:38. But if any man know not, he shall not be known. + +14:39. Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy: and forbid not to +speak with tongues. + +14:40. But let all things be done decently and according to order. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 15 + + +Christ's resurrection and ours. The manner of our resurrection. + +15:1. Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached +to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand. + +15:2. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I +preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. + +15:3. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how +that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: + +15:4. And that he was buried: and that he rose again according to the +scriptures: + +15:5. And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven. + +15:6. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of +whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. + +15:7. After that, he was seen by James: then by all the apostles. + +15:8. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of +due tine. + +15:9. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be +called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. + +15:10. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me +hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. +Yet not I, but the grace of God with me: + +15:11. For whether I or they, so we preach: and so you have believed. + +15:12. Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, +how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? + +15:13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not +risen again. + +15:14. And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: +and your faith is also vain. + +15:15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have +given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he +hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again. + +15:16. For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again. + +15:17. And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you +are yet in your sins. + +15:18. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. + +15:19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men +most miserable. + +15:20. But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them +that sleep: + +15:21. For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the +dead. + +15:22. And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made +alive. + +15:23. But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then +they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming. + +15:24. Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom +to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all +principality and power and virtue. + +15:25. For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his +feet. + +15:26. And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put +all things under his feet. And whereas he saith: + +15:27. All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who +put all things under him. + +15:28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also +himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that +God may be all in all. + +The Son also himself shall be subject unto him. . .That is, the Son will +be subject to the Father, according to his human nature, even after the +general resurrection; and also the whole mystical body of Christ will +be entirely subject to God, obeying him in every thing. + +15:29. Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if +the dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them? + +That are baptized for the dead. . .Some think the apostle here alludes +to a ceremony then in use; but others, more probably, to the prayers +and penitential labours, performed by the primitive Christians for the +souls of the faithful departed; or to the baptism of afflictions and +sufferings undergone for sinners spiritually dead. + +15:30. Why also are we in danger every hour? + +15:31. I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in +Christ Jesus our Lord. + +15:32. If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth +it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to +morrow we shall die. + +Let us eat and drink, etc. . .That is, if we did not believe that we +were to rise again from the dead, we might live like the impious and +wicked, who have no belief in the resurrection. + +15:33. Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners. + +15:34. Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of +God. I speak it to your shame. + +15:35. But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what +manner of body shall they come? + +15:36. Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except +it die first. + +15:37. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall +be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest. + +15:38. But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its +proper body. + +15:39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, +another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes. + +15:40. And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one +is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial. + +15:41. One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and +another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory. + +15:42. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in +corruption: it shall rise in incorruption. + +15:43. It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in +weakness: it shall rise in power. + +15:44. It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body. If +there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is +written: + +15:45. The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam +into a quickening spirit. + +15:46. Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is +natural: afterwards that which is spiritual. + +15:47. The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from +heaven, heavenly. + +15:48. Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as +is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly. + +15:49. Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us +bear also the image of the heavenly. + +15:50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess +the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption. + +15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: +but we shall not all be changed. + +15:52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: +for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again +incorruptible. And we shall be changed. + +15:53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal +must put on immortality. + +15:54. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to +pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. + +15:55. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? + +15:56. Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law. + +15:57. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our +Lord Jesus Christ. + +15:58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: +always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is +not in vain in the Lord. + + + +1 Corinthians Chapter 16 + + +Of collection of alms. Admonitions and salutations. + +16:1. Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I +have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also. + +16:2. On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with +himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the +collections be not then to be made. + +16:3. And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by +letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem. + +16:4. And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me. + +16:5. Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through +Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia. + +16:6. And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: +that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go. + +16:7. For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall +abide with you some time, if the Lord permit. + +16:8. But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost. + +16:9. For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many +adversaries. + +16:10. Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear: for +he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do. + +16:11. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct ye him on his way +in peace, that he may come to me. For I look for him with the brethren. + +16:12. And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to understand that I +much entreated him to come unto you with the brethren: and indeed it +was not his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he +shall have leisure. + +16:13. Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be +strengthened. + +16:14. Let all your things be done in charity. + +16:15. And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanus, +and of Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they are the firstfruits of +Achaia, and have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints: + +16:16. That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh +with us and laboureth. + +16:17. And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanus and Fortunatus and +Achaicus: because that which was wanting on your part, they have +supplied. + +16:18. For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them, +therefore, that are such. + +16:19. The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you +much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house, with whom I +also lodge. + +16:20. All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy +kiss. + +16:21. The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand. + +16:22. If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, +maranatha. + +Let him be anathema, maranatha. . .Anathema signifies here a thing +accursed. Maran-atha, which, according to St. Jerome and St. +Chrysostom, signify, 'The Lord is come' already, and therefore is to be +taken as an admonition to those who doubted of the resurrection, and to +put them in mind that Christ, the judge of the living and the dead, is +come already. Others explain Maran-atha: 'May our Lord come', that is, +to judge and punish those with exemplary judgments and punishments, +that do not love the Lord Jesus Christ. + +16:23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. + +16:24. My charity be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. + + + + +THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS + + + +In this Epistle St. Paul comforts those who are now reformed by his +admonitions to them in the former and absolves the incestuous man on +doing penance, whom he had before excommunicated for his crime. Hence +he treats of true penance and of the dignity of the ministers of the +New Testament. He cautions the faithful against false teachers and the +society of infidels. He gives an account of his sufferings and also of +the favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second +Epistle was written in the same year with the first and sent by Titus +from some place in Macedonia. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 1 + + +He speaks of his troubles in Asia. His not coming to them was not out +of levity. The constancy and sincerity of his doctrine. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy +our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the +saints that are in all Achaia: + +1:2. Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father +of mercies and the God of all comfort: + +1:4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able +to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith +we also are exhorted by God. + +1:5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ +doth our comfort abound. + +1:6. Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and +salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or +whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which +worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. + +1:7. That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are +partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation. + +1:8. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation +which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our +strength, so that we were weary even of life. + +1:9. But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not +trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead. + +1:10. Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: +in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us, + +1:11. You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained +for us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in +our behalf. + +1:12. For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in +simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but +in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more +abundantly towards you. + +1:13. For we write no other things to you than what you have read and +known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end. + +1:14. As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you +also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:15. And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that +you might have a second grace: + +1:16. And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to +come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea. + +1:17. Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the +things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there +should be with me, It is, and It is not? + +1:18. But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, +It is, and It is not. + +1:19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by +us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But, +It is, was in him. + +It is, was in him. . .There was no inconstancy in the doctrine of the +apostles, sometimes, like modern sectaries, saying, It is, and at other +times saying, It is not. But their doctrine was ever the same, one +uniform yea, in Jesus Christ, one Amen, that is, one truth in him. + +1:20. For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by +him, amen to God, unto our glory. + +1:21. Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath +anointed us, is God: + +1:22. Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our +hearts. + +1:23. But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came +not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your +faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 2 + + +He grants a pardon to the incestuous man upon his doing penance. + +2:1. But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. + +2:2. For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, +but the same who is made sorrowful by me? + +2:3. And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have +sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having +confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. + +2:4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you +with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you +might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you. + +2:5. And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in +part, that I may not burden you all. + +2:6. To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is +given by many. + +2:7. So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort +him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. + +2:8. Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity +towards him. + +2:9. For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment +of you, whether you be obedient in all things. + +2:10. And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have +pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it +in the person of Christ: + +I also. . .The apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the +person and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian, +whom before he had put under penance, which pardon consisted in a +releasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin. + +2:11. That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of +his devices. + +2:12. And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door +was opened unto me in the Lord, + +2:13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: +but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia. + +2:14. Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ +Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place. + +2:15. For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are +saved and in them that perish. + +2:16. To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the +others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so +sufficient? + +The odour of death, etc. . .The preaching of the apostle, which by its +fragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own +fault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting +that divine call. + +2:17. For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with +sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 3 + + +He needs no commendatory letters. The glory of the ministry of the New +Testament. + +3:1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) +epistles of commendation to you, or from you? + +3:2. You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and +read by all men: + +3:3. Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered +by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: +not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart. + +3:4. And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God. + +3:5. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of +ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. + +3:6. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in +the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit +quickeneth. + +The letter. . .Not rightly understood, and taken without the spirit. + +3:7. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon +stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not +steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his +countenance), which is made void: + +3:8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory? + +3:9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the +ministration of justice aboundeth in glory. + +3:10. For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified +by reason of the glory that excelleth. + +3:11. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which +remaineth is in glory. + +3:12. Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence. + +3:13. And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of +Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made +void. + +3:14. But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the +selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken +away (because in Christ it is made void). + +3:15. But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon +their heart. + +3:16. But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be +taken away. + +3:17. Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, +there is liberty. + +3:18. But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are +transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit +of the Lord. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 4 + + +The sincerity of his preaching. His comfort in his afflictions. + +4:1. Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have +obtained mercy, we faint not. + +4:2. But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in +craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of +the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight +of God. + +4:3. And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, + +4:4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of +unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who +is the image of God, should not shine unto them. + +4:5. For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and +ourselves your servants through Jesus. + +4:6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath +shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory +of God, in the face of Christ Jesus. + +4:7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency +may be of the power of God and not of us. + +4:8. In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We +are straitened: but are not destitute. + +4:9. We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: +but we perish not. + +4:10. Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that +the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. + +4:11. For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake: +that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. + +4:12. So then death worketh in us: but life in you. + +4:13. But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I +believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which +cause we speak also: + +4:14. Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with +Jesus and place us with you. + +4:15. For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding +through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God. + +4:16. For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is +corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. + +4:17. For that which is at present momentary and light of our +tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight +of glory. + +4:18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things +which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the +things which are not seen, are eternal. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 5 + + +He is willing to leave his earthly mansion to be with the Lord. His +charity to the Corinthians. + +5:1. For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, +that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in +heaven. + +5:2. For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our +habitation that is from heaven. + +5:3. Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked. + +5:4. For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being +burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that +that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life. + +5:5. Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given +us the pledge of the Spirit, + +5:6. Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in +the body we are absent from the Lord. + +5:7. (For we walk by faith and not by sight.) + +5:8. But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from +the body and to be present with the Lord. + +5:9. And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him. + +5:10. For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, +that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as +he hath done, whether it be good or evil. + +The proper things of the body. . .In the particular judgment, +immediately after death, the soul is rewarded or punished according to +what it has done in the body. + +5:11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men: +but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences +we are manifest. + +5:12. We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to +glory in our behalf: that you may have somewhat to answer them who +glory in face, and not in heart. + +5:13. For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether +we be sober, it is for you. + +5:14. For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one +died for all, then all were dead. + +5:15. And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live +to themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again. + +5:16. Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And +if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so +no longer. + +We know no man according to the flesh. . .That is, we consider not any +man with regard to his nation, family, kindred, or other natural +qualities or advantages; but only with relation to Christ, and +according to the order of divine charity, in God, and for God. The +apostle adds, that even with respect to Christ himself, he now no +longer considers him according to the flesh, by taking a satisfaction +in his being his countryman; his affection being now purified from all +such earthly considerations. + +5:17. If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are +passed away. Behold all things are made new. + +5:18. But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by +Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. + +5:19. For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, +not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of +reconciliation. + +5:20. For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting +by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God. + +5:21. Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be +made the justice of God in him. + +Sin for us. . .That is, to be a sin offering, a victim for sin. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 6 + + +He exhorts them to a correspondence with God's grace and not to +associate with unbelievers. + +6:1. And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God +in vain. + +6:2. For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day +of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: +behold, now is the day of salvation. + +6:3. Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed. + +6:4. But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of +God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses, + +6:5. In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in +fastings, + +6:6. In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the +Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned, + +6:7. In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of +justice on the right hand and on the left: + +6:8. By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as +deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known: + +6:9. As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed: + +6:10. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: +as having nothing and possessing all things. + +6:11. Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is +enlarged. + +6:12. You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are +straitened. + +6:13. But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be +you also enlarged. + +6:14. Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath +justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? + +6:15. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the +faithful with the unbeliever? + +6:16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are +the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and +walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people. + +6:17. Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the +Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: + +6:18. And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you +shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 7 + + +The apostle's affection for the Corinthians. His comfort and joy on +their account. + +7:1. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse +ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, +perfecting sanctification in the fear of God. + +7:2. Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we +have overreached no man. + +7:3. I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before +that you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together. + +7:4. Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am +filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our +tribulation. + +7:5. For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest: +but we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within. + +7:6. But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of +Titus. + +7:7. And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith +he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, +your zeal for me: so that I rejoiced the more. + +7:8. For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent. +And if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a +time) did make you sorrowful, + +7:9. Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because +you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful +according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. + +7:10. For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, +steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. + +7:11. For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful +according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence, +yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all +things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter. + +7:12. Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that +did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our +carefulness that we have for you + +7:13. Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation +we did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his +spirit was refreshed by you all. + +7:14. And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been +put to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also +our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth. + +7:15. And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the +obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him. + +7:16. I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 8 + + +He exhorts them to contribute bountifully to relieve the poor of +Jerusalem. + +8:1. Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath +been given in the churches of Macedonia. + +8:2. That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of +joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their +simplicity. + +Simplicity. . .That is, sincere bounty and charity. + +8:3. For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond +their power, they were willing: + +8:4. With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of +the ministry that is done toward the saints. + +8:5. And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the +Lord, then to us by the will of God; + +8:6. Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he +would finish among you this same grace. + +8:7. That as in all things you abound in faith and word and knowledge +and all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us: so in +this grace also you may abound. + +8:8. I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, +approving also the good disposition of your charity. + +8:9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich +he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be +rich. + +8:10. And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who +have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago. + +8:11. Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is +forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which +you have. + +8:12. For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that +which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not. + +8:13. For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but +by an equality. + +8:14. In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that +their abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an +equality, + +8:15. As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that +had little had no want. + +8:16. And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you +in the heart of Titus. + +8:17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation: but, being more careful, +of his own will he went unto you. + +8:18. We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the +gospel through all the churches. + +8:19. And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches +companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, +to the glory of the Lord and our determined will: + +8:20. Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance +which is administered by us. + +8:21. For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also +before men. + +8:22. And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often +proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent: with much +confidence in you, + +8:23. Either for Titus, who is my companion and fellow labourer towards +you, or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of +Christ. + +8:24. Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the +evidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 9 + + +A further exhortation to almsgiving. The fruits of it. + +9:1. For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is +superfluous for me to write unto you. + +9:2. For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the +Macedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your +emulation hath provoked very many. + +9:3. Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of +concerning you be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) +you may be ready: + +9:4. Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you +unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter. + +9:5. Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they +would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be +ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness. + +9:6. Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: +and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings. + +9:7. Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or +of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. + +9:8. And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, +having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work, + +9:9. As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the +poor: his justice remaineth for ever. + +9:10. And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you +bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the +fruits of your justice: + +9:11. That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all +simplicity which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. + +9:12. Because the administration of this office doth not only supply +the want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the +Lord. + +9:13. By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience +of your confession unto the gospel of Christ and for the simplicity of +your communicating unto them and unto all. + +9:14. And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of +the excellent grace of God in you. + +9:15. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 10 + + +To stop the calumny and boasting of false apostles, he set forth the +power of his apostleship. + +10:1. Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of +Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am +bold toward you. + +10:2. But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with +that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who +reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. + +10:3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the +flesh. + +10:4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, +unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, + +10:5. And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of +God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience +of Christ: + +10:6. And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your +obedience shall be fulfilled. + +10:7. See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any +man trust to himself, that he is Christ's let him think this again with +himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also. + +10:8. For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the +Lord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I +should not be ashamed. + +10:9. But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by +epistles, + +10:10. (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but +his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible): + +10:11. Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by +epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present. + +10:12. For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that +commend themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare +ourselves with ourselves. + +10:13. But we will not glory beyond our measure: but according to the +measure of the rule which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach +even unto you. + +10:14. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we +reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of +Christ. + +10:15. Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having +hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our +rule abundantly. + +10:16. Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel: +not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready +to our hand. + +10:17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. + +10:18. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God +commendeth. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 11 + + +He is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians +should be imposed upon by the false apostles. + +11:1. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do +bear with me. + +My folly. . .So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly +speaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the +apostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed +to his charge. + +11:2. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have +espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin +to Christ. + +11:3. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so +your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in +Christ. + +11:4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not +preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; +or another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear +with him. + +11:5. For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great +apostles. + +11:6. For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in +all things we have been made manifest to you. + +11:7. Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be +exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely? + +11:8. I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for +your ministry. + +11:9. And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to +no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who +came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being +burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself. + +11:10. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be +broken off in me in the regions of Achaia. + +11:11. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it. + +11:12. But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion +from them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be +found even as we. + +11:13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming +themselves into the apostles of Christ. + +11:14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an +angel of light. + +11:15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed +as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their +works. + +11:16. I say again (Let no man think me to be foolish: otherwise take +me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little): + +11:17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were +in foolishness, in this matter of glorying. + +11:18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory +also. + +11:19. For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise. + +11:20. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour +you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you +on the face. + +11:21. I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this +part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also. + +11:22. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They +are the seed of Abraham: so am I. + +11:23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I +am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes +above measure, in deaths often. + +11:24. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one. + +11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I +suffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea. + +11:26. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, +in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in +the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils +from false brethren: + +11:27. In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and +thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: + +11:28. Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the +solicitude for all the churches. + +My daily instance. . .The labours that come in, and press upon me every +day. + +11:29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not +on fire? + +11:30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern +my infirmity. + +11:31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for +ever, knoweth that I lie not. + +11:32. At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, +guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me. + +11:33. And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and +so escaped his hands. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 12 + + +His raptures and revelations, His being buffeted by Satan. His fear for +the Corinthians. + +12:1. If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to +visions and revelations of the Lord. + +12:2. I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the +body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a +one caught up to the third heaven. + +12:3. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I +know not: God knoweth): + +12:4. That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which +it is not granted to man to utter. + +12:5. For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing +but in my infirmities. + +12:6. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: +for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of +me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. + +12:7. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there +was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. + +12:8. For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart +from me. + +12:9. And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is +made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my +infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. + +Power is made perfect. . .The strength and power of God more perfectly +shines forth in our weakness and infirmity; as the more weak we are of +ourselves, the more illustrious is his grace in supporting us, and +giving us the victory under all trials and conflicts. + +12:10. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in +reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. +For when I am weak, then am I powerful. + +12:11. I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have +been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are +above measure apostles, although I be nothing. + +12:12. Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all +patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. + +12:13. For what is there that you have had less than the other churches +but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury. + +12:14. Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will +not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, +but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but +the parents for the children. + +12:15. But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: +although loving you more, I be loved less. + +12:16. But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught +you by guile. + +12:17. Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you? + +12:18. I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus +overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the +same steps? + +12:19. Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak +before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your +edification. + +12:20. For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such +as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. +Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, +detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. + +12:21. Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn +many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the +uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have +committed. + + + +2 Corinthians Chapter 13 + + +He threatens the impenitent, to provoke them to penance. + +13:1. Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth +of two or three witnesses shall every word stand. + +13:2. I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to +them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I +will not spare. + +13:3. Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards +you is not weak, but is mighty in you? + +13:4. For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by +the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with +him by the power of God towards you. + +13:5. Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. +Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless +perhaps you be reprobates? + +13:6. But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates. + +13:7. Now we pray God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear +approved, but that you may do that which is good and that we may be as +reprobates. + +Reprobates. . .that is, without proof, by having no occasion of shewing +our power in punishing you. + +13:8. For we can do nothing against the truth: but for the truth. + +13:9. For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we +pray for, your perfection. + +13:10. Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being +present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the +Lord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction. + +13:11. For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, +be of one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be +with you. + +13:12. Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you. + +13:13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and +the communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE GALATIANS + + + +The Galatians, soon after St. Paul had preached the Gospel to them, +were seduced by some false teachers, who had been Jews and who were for +obliging all Christians, even those who had been Gentiles, to observe +circumcision and the other ceremonies of the Mosaical law. In this +Epistle, he refutes the pernicious doctrine of those teachers and also +their calumny against his mission and apostleship. The subject matter +of this Epistle is much the same as that to the Romans. It was written +at Ephesus, about twenty-three years after our Lord's Ascension. + + + +Galatians Chapter 1 + + +He blames the Galatians for suffering themselves to be imposed upon by +new teachers. The apostle's calling. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ +and God the Father, who raised him from the dead: + +1:2. And all the brethren who are with me: to the churches of Galatia. + +1:3. Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord +Jesus Christ, + +1:4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this +present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father: + +1:5. To whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen. + +1:6. I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you +into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. + +1:7. Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and +would pervert the gospel of Christ. + +1:8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you +besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. + +1:9. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a +gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. + +1:10. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If +I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. + +1:11. For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was +preached by me is not according to man. + +1:12. For neither did I receive it of man: nor did I learn it but by +the revelation of Jesus Christ. + +1:13. For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' +religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and +wasted it. + +1:14. And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals +in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of +my fathers. + +1:15. But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb +and called me by his grace, + +1:16. To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the +Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood. + +1:17. Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me: +but I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus. + +1:18. Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I +tarried with him fifteen days. + +1:19. But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of +the Lord. + +1:20. Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie +not. + +1:21. Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. + +1:22. And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in +Christ: + +1:23. But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past doth +now preach the faith which once he impugned. + +1:24. And they glorified God in me. + + + +Galatians Chapter 2 + + +The apostle's preaching was approved of by the other apostles. The +Gentiles were not to be constrained to the observance of the law. + +2:1. Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with +Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. + +2:2. And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the +gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed +to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain. + +2:3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled +to be circumcised. + +2:4. But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in +privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they +might bring us into servitude. + +2:5. To whom we yielded not by subjection: no, not for an hour: that +the truth of the gospel might continue with you. + +2:6. But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time +it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man): for to me +they that seemed to be some thing added nothing. + +2:7. But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the +gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision. + +The gospel of the uncircumcision. . .The preaching of the gospel to the +uncircumcised, that is, to the Gentiles. St. Paul was called in an +extraordinary manner to be the apostle of the Gentiles; St. Peter, +besides his general commission over the whole flock, (John 21. 15, +etc.,) had a peculiar charge of the people of the circumcision, that +is, of the Jews. + +2:8. (For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the +circumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.) + +2:9. And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and +Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the +right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and +they unto the circumcision: + +2:10. Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also +I was careful to do. + +2:11. But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, +because he was to be blamed. + +I withstood, etc. . .The fault that is here noted in the conduct of St. +Peter, was only a certain imprudence, in withdrawing himself from the +table of the Gentiles, for fear of giving offence to the Jewish +converts; but this, in such circumstances, when his so doing might be +of ill consequence to the Gentiles, who might be induced thereby to +think themselves obliged to conform to the Jewish way of living, to the +prejudice of their Christian liberty. Neither was St. Paul's +reprehending him any argument against his supremacy; for in such cases +an inferior may, and sometimes ought, with respect, to admonish his +superior. + +2:12. For before that some came from James, he did eat with the +Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, +fearing them who were of the circumcision. + +2:13. And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that +Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation. + +2:14. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of +the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, +livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how +dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? + +2:15. We by nature are Jews: and not of the Gentiles, sinners. + +2:16. But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, +but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that +we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the +law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. + +2:17. But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves +also are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid! + +2:18. For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make +myself a prevaricator. + +2:19. For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to +God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross. + +2:20. And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live +now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me +and delivered himself for me. + +2:21. I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, +then Christ died in vain. + + + +Galatians Chapter 3 + + +The Spirit, and the blessing promised to Abraham cometh not by the law, +but by faith. + +3:1. O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not +obey the truth: before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, +crucified among you? + +3:2. This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the +works of the law or by the hearing of faith? + +3:3. Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you +would now be made perfect by the flesh? + +3:4. Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain. + +3:5. He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles +among you: doth he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of +the faith? + +3:6. As it is written: Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him +unto justice. + +3:7. Know ye, therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the +children of Abraham. + +3:8. And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by +faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed. + +3:9. Therefore, they that are of faith shall be blessed with faithful +Abraham. + +3:10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For +it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things +which are written in the book of the law to do them. + +3:11. But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: +because the just man liveth by faith. + +3:12. But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall +live in them. + +3:13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a +curse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a +tree). + +3:14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through +Christ Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith. + +3:15. Brethren (I speak after the manner of man), yet a man's +testament, if it be confirmed, no man despiseth nor addeth to it. + +3:16. To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: +And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is +Christ. + +3:17. Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, +the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not +disannul, to make the promise of no effect. + +3:18. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. +But God gave it to Abraham by promise. + +3:19. Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until +the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by +angels in the hand of a mediator. + +Because of transgressions. . .To restrain them from sin, by fear and +threats. Ordained by angels. . .The law was delivered by angels, +speaking in the name and person of God to Moses, who was the mediator, +on this occasion, between God and the people. + +3:20. Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one. + +3:21. Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if +there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should +have been by the law. + +3:22. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, +by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe. + +Hath concluded all under sin. . .that is, hath declared all to be under +sin, from which they could not be delivered but by faith in Jesus +Christ, the promised seed. + +3:23. But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up, +unto that faith which was to be revealed. + +3:24. Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ: that we might be +justified by faith. + +Pedagogue. . .That is, schoolmaster, conductor, or instructor. + +3:25. But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue. + +3:26. For you are all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus. + +3:27. For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have put on +Christ. + +3:28. There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: +there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. + +Neither Jew, etc. . .That is, no distinction of Jew, etc. + +3:29. And if you be Christ's, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs +according to the promise. + + + +Galatians Chapter 4 + + +Christ has freed us from the servitude of the law. We are the freeborn +sons of Abraham. + +4:1. As long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a +servant, though he be lord of all, + +4:2. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the +father. + +4:3. So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements +of the world. + +Under the elements, etc. . .That is, under the first rudiments of +religion, in which the carnal Jews were trained up; or under those +corporeal creatures, used in their manifold rites, sacrifices, and +sacraments. + +4:4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made +of a woman, made under the law: + +4:5. That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might +receive the adoption of sons. + +4:6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into +your hearts, crying: Abba, Father. + +4:7. Therefore, now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an +heir also through God. + +4:8. But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, +are not gods. + +4:9. But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by +God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire +to serve again? + +4:10. You observe days and months and times, and years. + +You observe days, etc. . .He speaks not of the observation of the Lord's +day, or other Christian festivals; but either of the superstitious +observation of days lucky and unlucky; or else of the Jewish festivals, +to the observance of which, certain Jewish teachers sought to induce +the Galatians. + +4:11. I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among +you. + +4:12. Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You +have not injured me at all. + +4:13. And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the +gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh + +4:14. You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of +God, even as Christ Jesus. + +4:15. Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if +it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would +have given them to me. + +4:16. Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? + +4:17. They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude +you, that you might be zealous for them. + +4:18. But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and +not only when I am present with you. + +4:19. My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be +formed in you. + +4:20. And I would willingly be present with you now and change my +voice: because I am ashamed for you. + +4:21. Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read +the law? + +4:22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a +bondwoman and the other by a free woman. + +4:23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: +but he of the free woman was by promise. + +4:24. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two +testaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is +Agar. + +4:25. For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that +Jerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children. + +4:26. But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother. + +4:27. For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break +forth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of +the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband. + +4:28. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. + +4:29. But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted +him that was after the spirit: so also it is now. + +4:30. But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: +for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free +woman. + +4:31. So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman but +of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free. + + + +Galatians Chapter 5 + + +He exhorts them to stand to their Christian liberty. Of the fruits of +the flesh and of the spirit. + +5:1. Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage. + +5:2. Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall +profit you nothing. + +5:3. And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a +debtor to do the whole law. + +5:4. You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you +are fallen from grace. + +5:5. For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice. + +5:6. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor +uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity. + +5:7. You did run well. What hath hindered you, that you should not obey +the truth? + +5:8. This persuasion is not from him that calleth you. + +5:9. A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump. + +5:10. I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of +another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, +whosoever he be. + +5:11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet +suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void. + +5:12. I would they were even cut off, who trouble you. + +5:13. For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not +liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve +one another. + +5:14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy +neighbour as thyself. + +5:15. But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not +consumed one of another. + +5:16. I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the +lusts of the flesh. + +5:17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against +the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not +the things that you would. + +5:18. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. + +5:19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, +uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, + +5:20. Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, +quarrels, dissensions, sects, + +5:21. Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the +which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such +things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. + +5:22. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, +benignity, goodness, longanimity, + +5:23. Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such +there is no law. + +5:24. And they that are Christ's have crucified their flesh, with the +vices and concupiscences. + +5:25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. + +5:26. Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, +envying one another. + + + +Galatians Chapter 6 + + +He exhorts to charity, humility and all virtue. He glories in nothing +but in the cross of Christ. + +6:1. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are +spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering +thyself, lest thou also be tempted. + +6:2. Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of +Christ. + +6:3. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is +nothing, he deceiveth himself. + +6:4. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory +in himself only and not in another. + +6:5. For every one shall bear his own burden. + +6:6. And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that +instructeth him, in all good things. + +6:7. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. + +6:8. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he +that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But +he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. + +6:9. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, +not failing. + +6:10. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but +especially to those who are of the household of the faith. + +6:11. See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand. + +6:12. For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you +to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the +cross of Christ. + +6:13. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but +they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your +flesh. + +6:14. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord +Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. + +6:15. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor +uncircumcision: but a new creature. + +6:16. And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them and mercy: +and upon the Israel of God. + +6:17. From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me: for I bear the +marks of the Lord Jesus in my body. + +6:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. +Amen. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS + + + +Ephesus was the capital of Lesser Asia, and celebrated for the temple +of Diana, to which the most part of the people of the East went +frequently to worship. But St. Paul having preached the Gospel there, +for two years the first time and afterwards for about a year, converted +many. He wrote this Epistle to them when he was a prisoner in Rome; and +sent it by Tychicus. He admonishes them to hold firmly the faith which +they had received and warns them, and also those of the neighbouring +cities, against the sophistry of philosophers and doctrine of false +teachers who were come among them. The matters of faith contained in +this Epistle are exceedingly sublime, and consequently very difficult +to be understood. It was written about twenty-nine years after our +Lord's Ascension. + + + +Ephesians Chapter 1 + + +The great blessings we have received through Christ. He is the head of +all the church. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the +saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. + +1:2. Grace be to you and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath +blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ: + +In heavenly places. . .or, in heavenly things. In coelestibus. + +1:4. As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we +should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity. + +1:5. Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through +Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will: + +1:6. Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced +us, in his beloved son. + +1:7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of +sins, according to the riches of his, grace, + +1:8. Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence, + +1:9. That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, +according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, + +1:10. In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all +things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him. + +1:11. In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according +to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel +of his will. + +1:12. That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped +in Christ: + +1:13. In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the +gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with +the holy Spirit of promise. + +1:14. Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of +acquisition, unto the praise of his glory. + +Acquisition. . .that is, a purchased possession. + +1:15. Wherefore, I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord +Jesus and of your love towards all the saints, + +1:16. Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in +my prayers, + +1:17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may +give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge +of him: + +1:18. The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the +hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his +inheritance in the saints. + +1:19. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who +believe according to the operation of the might of his power, + +1:20. Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead and +setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places. + +1:21. Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and +every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that +which is to come. + +1:22. And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him +head over all the church, + +1:23. Which is his body and the fulness of him who is filled all in +all. + + + +Ephesians Chapter 2 + + +All our good comes through Christ. He is our peace. + +2:1. And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, + +2:2. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this +world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit +that now worketh on the children of unbelief: + +2:3. In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our +flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were +by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: + +2:4. But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith +he loved us + +2:5. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in +Christ (by whose grace you are saved) + +2:6. And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in +the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus. + +2:7. That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his +grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus. + +2:8. For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of +yourselves, for it is the gift of God. + +2:9. Not of works, that no man may glory. + +Not of works. . .as of our own growth, or from ourselves; but as from +the grace of God. + +2:10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good +works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. + +2:11. For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles is +the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called +circumcision in the flesh, made by hands: + +2:12. That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the +conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope +of the promise and without God in this world. + +2:13. But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are +made nigh by the blood of Christ. + +2:14. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down +the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh: + +2:15. Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he +might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace + +2:16. And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing +the enmities in himself. + +2:17. And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off: and +peace to them that were nigh. + +2:18. For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father. + +2:19. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you +are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God, + +2:20. Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus +Christ himself being the chief corner stone: + +2:21. In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into +an holy temple in the Lord. + +2:22. In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in +the Spirit. + + + +Ephesians Chapter 3 + + +The mystery hidden from former ages was discovered to the apostle, to +be imparted to the Gentiles. He prays that they may be strengthened in +God. + +3:1. For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you +Gentiles: + +3:2. If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God +which is given me towards you: + +3:3. How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known +to me, as I have written above in a few words: + +3:4. As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of +Christ, + +3:5. Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it +is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit: + +3:6. That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body: and +copartners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel + +3:7. Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace +of God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power. + +3:8. To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach +among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: + +3:9. And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the +dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God +who created all things: + +3:10. That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the +principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church, + +3:11. According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus +our Lord: + +3:12. In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith +of him. + +3:13. Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, +which is your glory. + +3:14. For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus +Christ, + +3:15. Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named: + +All paternity. . .Or, the whole family. God is the Father, both of +angels and men; whosoever besides is named father, is so named with +subordination to him. + +3:16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to +be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man: + +3:17. That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted +and founded in charity, + +3:18. You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the +breadth and length and height and depth, + +3:19. To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all +knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God. + +3:20. Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we +desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us: + +3:21. To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all +generations, world without end. Amen. + + + +Ephesians Chapter 4 + + +He exhorts them to unity, to put on the new man, and to fly sin. + +4:1. I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk +worthy of the vocation in which you are called: + +4:2. With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one +another in charity. + +4:3. Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. + +4:4. One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your +calling. + +4:5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. + +4:6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and +in us all. + +4:7. But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of +the giving of Christ. + +4:8. Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: +he gave gifts to men. + +4:9. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended +first into the lower parts of the earth? + +4:10. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the +heavens: that he might fill all things. + +4:11. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some +evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors: + +Gave some apostles--Until we all meet, etc. . .Here it is plainly +expressed, that Christ has left in his church a perpetual succession of +orthodox pastors and teachers, to preserve the faithful in unity and +truth. + +4:12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the word of the ministry, +for the edifying of the body of Christ: + +4:13. Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of +the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the +fulness of Christ: + +4:14. That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and +carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by +cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive. + +4:15. But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in +him who is the head, even Christ: + +4:16. From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined +together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in +the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the +edifying of itself in charity. + +4:17. This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you +walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind: + +4:18. Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the +life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the +blindness of their hearts. + +4:19. Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto +the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness. + +4:20. But you have not so learned Christ: + +4:21. If so be that you have heard him and have been taught in him, as +the truth is in Jesus: + +4:22. To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is +corrupted according to the desire of error. + +4:23. And be renewed in spirit of your mind: + +4:24. And put on the new man, who according to God is created in +justice and holiness of truth. + +4:25. Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with +his neighbour. For we are members one of another. + +4:26. Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. + +4:27. Give not place to the devil. + +4:28. He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him +labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may +have something to give to him that suffereth need. + +4:29. Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is +good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the +hearers. + +4:30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed +unto the day of redemption. + +4:31. Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and +blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice. + +4:32. And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, +even as God hath forgiven you in Christ. + + + +Ephesians Chapter 5 + + +Exhortations to a virtuous life. The mutual duties of man and wife, by +the example of Christ and of the Church. + +5:1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: + +5:2. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered +himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of +sweetness. + +5:3. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so +much as be named among you, as becometh saints: + +5:4. Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no +purpose: but rather giving of thanks. + +5:5. For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or +covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the +kingdom of Christ and of God. + +5:6. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these +things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. + +5:7. Be ye not therefore partakers with them. + +5:8. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk +then as children of the light. + +5:9. For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and +truth: + +5:10. Proving what is well pleasing to God. + +5:11. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but +rather reprove them. + +5:12. For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame +even to speak of. + +5:13. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: +for all that is made manifest is light. + +5:14. Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the +dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee. + +5:15. See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as +unwise, + +5:16. But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil. + +5:17. Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will +of God. + +5:18. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled +with the Holy Spirit, + +5:19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual +canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord: + +5:20. Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord +Jesus Christ, to God and the Father: + +5:21. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. + +5:22. Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord: + +5:23. Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the +head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. + +5:24. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the +wives be to their husbands in all things. + +As the church is subject to Christ. . .The church then, according to St. +Paul, is ever obedient to Christ, and can never fall from him, but +remain faithful to him, unspotted and unchanged to the end of the +world. + +5:25. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and +delivered himself up for it: + +5:26. That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in +the word of life: + +5:27. That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not +having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy +and without blemish. + +5:28. So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He +that loveth his wife loveth himself. + +5:29. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and +cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: + +5:30. Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his +bones. + +5:31. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall +cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh. + +5:32. This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the +church. + +5:33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his +wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband. + + + +Ephesians Chapter 6 + + +Duties of children and servants. The Christian's armour. + +6:1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just. + +6:2. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment +with a promise: + +6:3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon +earth. + +6:4. And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring +them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. + +6:5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the +flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to +Christ. + +6:6. Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the +servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. + +6:7. With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men. + +6:8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same +shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free. + +6:9. And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing +threatenings: knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven. +And there is no respect of persons with him. + +6:10. Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might +of his power. + +6:11. Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand +against the deceits of the devil. + +6:12. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against +principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this +darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. + +High places, or heavenly places. . .That is to say, in the air, the +lowest of the celestial regions; in which God permits these wicked +spirits or fallen angels to wander. + +6:13. Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able +to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect. + +6:14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and +having on the breastplate of justice: + +6:15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. + +6:16. In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be +able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. + +6:17. And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the +Spirit (which is the word of God). + +6:18. By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the +spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for +all the saints: + +6:19. And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth +with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel, + +6:20. For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be +bold to speak according as I ought. + +6:21. But that you also may know the things that concern me and what I +am doing, Tychicus, my dearest brother and faithful minister in the +Lord, will make known to you all things: + +6:22. Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose: that you may know +the things concerning us, and that he may comfort your hearts. + +6:23. Peace be to the brethren and charity with faith, from God the +Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. + +6:24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in +incorruption. Amen. + +In incorruption. . .That is, with a pure and perfect love. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS + + + +The Philippians were the first among the Macedonians converted to the +faith. They had a great veneration for St. Paul and supplied his wants +when he was a prisoner in Rome, sending to him by Epaphroditus, by whom +he sent this Epistle; in which he recommends charity, unity and +humility and warns them against false teachers, whom he calls dogs and +enemies of the cross of Christ. He also returns thanks for their +benefactions. It was written about twenty-nine years after our Lord's +Ascension. + + + +Philippians Chapter 1 + + +The apostle's affection for the Philippians. + +1:1. Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ: to all the saints +in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. + +1:2. Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:3. I give thanks to my God in every remembrance of you: + +1:4. Always in all my prayers making supplication for you all with joy: + +1:5. For your communication in the gospel of Christ, from the first day +unto now. + +1:6. Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good +work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus. + +1:7. As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have +you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and +confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy. + +1:8. For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of +Jesus Christ. + +1:9. And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in +knowledge and in all understanding: + +1:10. That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere +and without offence unto the day of Christ: + +1:11. Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the +glory and praise of God. + +1:12. Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things which +have happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the +gospel: + +1:13. So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court +and in all other places. + +1:14. And many of the brethren in the Lord, growing confident by my +bands, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. + +1:15. Some indeed, even out of envy and contention: but some also for +good will preach Christ. + +1:16. Some out of charity, knowing that I am set for the defence of the +gospel. + +1:17. And some out of contention preach Christ not sincerely: supposing +that they raise affliction to my bands. + +1:18. But what then? So that by all means, whether by occasion or by +truth, Christ be preached: in this also I rejoice, yea, and will +rejoice. + +1:19. For I know that this shall fall out to me unto salvation, through +your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, + +1:20. According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be +confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall +Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. + +1:21. For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain. + +1:22. And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. +And what I shall choose I know not. + +This is to me, etc. . .His meaning is, that although his dying +immediately for Christ would be his gain, by putting him presently in +possession of heaven; yet he is doubtful what he should choose, because +by staying longer in the flesh, he should be more beneficial to the +souls of his neighbours. + +1:23. But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved +and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better. + +1:24. But to abide still in the flesh is needful for you. + +1:25. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and +continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith: + +1:26. That your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, by my +coming to you again. + +1:27. Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: +that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, +that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for +the faith of the gospel. + +1:28. And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them +is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God. + +1:29. For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, +but also to suffer for him: + +1:30. Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me and +now have heard of me. + + + +Philippians Chapter 2 + + +He recommends them to unity and humility, and to work out their +salvation with fear and trembling. + +2:1. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of +charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration: + +2:2. Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same +charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. + +2:3. Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But +in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves: + +2:4. Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those +that are other men's. + +2:5. For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: + +2:6. Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal +with God: + +2:7. But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in +the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. + +Emptied himself, exinanivit. . .made himself as of no account. + +2:8. He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the +death of the cross. + +2:9. For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a +name which is above all names: + +2:10. That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that +are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: + +2:11. And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ +is in the glory of God the Father. + +2:12. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as +in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and +trembling work out your salvation. + +With fear, etc. . .This is against the false faith, and presumptuous +security of modern sectaries. + +2:13. For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, +according to his good will. + +2:14. And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations: + +2:15. That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without +reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom +you shine as lights in the world. + +2:16. Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: +because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain. + +2:17. Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of +your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all. + +2:18. And for the selfsame thing, do you also rejoice and congratulate +with me. + +2:19. And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, +that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning +you. + +2:20. For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection +is solicitous for you. + +2:21. For all seek the things that are their own not the things that +are Jesus Christ's. + +2:22. Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so +hath he served with me in the gospel. + +2:23. Him therefore I hope to send unto you immediately: so soon as I +shall see how it will go with me. + +2:24. And I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come to you +shortly. + +2:25. But I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my +brother and fellow labourer and fellow soldier, but your apostle: and +he that hath ministered to my wants. + +2:26. For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had +heard that he was sick. + +2:27. For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on +him. And not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow +upon sorrow. + +2:28. Therefore, I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, +you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow. + +2:29. Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord: and treat with +honour such as he is. + +2:30. Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: +delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was +wanting towards my service. + + + +Philippians Chapter 3 + + +He warneth them against false teachers. He counts all other things +loss, that he may gain Christ. + +3:1. As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the +same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is +necessary. + +3:2. Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision. + +3:3. For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in +Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh. + +3:4. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other +thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: + +3:5. Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the +tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a +Pharisee: + +3:6. According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the +justice that is in the law, conversing without blame. + +3:7. But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss +for Christ. + +3:8. Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent +knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss +of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. + +3:9. And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the +law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: +justice in faith. + +3:10. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the +fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death, + +3:11. If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from +the dead. + +3:12. Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: +but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also +apprehended by Christ Jesus. + +3:13. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one +thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth +myself to those that are before, + +3:14. I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation +of God in Christ Jesus. + +3:15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if +in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you, + +3:16. Nevertheless, whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind, +let us also continue in the same rule. + +3:17. Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as +you have our model. + +3:18. For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you +weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: + +3:19. Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose +glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things. + +3:20. But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for +the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, + +3:21. Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of +his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue +all things unto himself. + + + +Philippians Chapter 4 + + +He exhorts them to perseverance in all good and acknowledges their +charitable contributions to him. + +4:1. Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and +my crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. + +4:2. I beg of Evodia and I beseech Syntyche to be of one mind in the +Lord. + +4:3. And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women +who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of +my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life. + +4:4. Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice. + +4:5. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh. + +4:6. Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and +supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to +God. + +4:7. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep +your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. + +4:8. For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever +modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever +of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: +think on these things. + +For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, etc. . .Here the +apostle enumerates general precepts of morality, which they ought to +practise. Whatsoever things are true. . .in words, in promises, in +lawful oaths, etc., he commands rectitude of mind, and sincerity of +heart. Whatsoever modest. . .by these words he prescribes gravity in +manners, modesty in dress, and decency in conversation. Whatsoever +just. . .That is, in dealing with others, in buying or selling, in trade +or business, to be fair and honest. Whatsoever holy. . .by these words +may be understood, that those who are in a religious state professed, +or in holy orders, should lead a life of sanctity and chastity, +according to the vows they make; but these words being also applied to +those in the world, indicate the virtuous life they are bound by the +divine commandments to follow. Whatsoever lovely. . .that is, to +practise those good offices in society, that procure us the esteem and +good will of our neighbours. Whatsoever of good fame. . .That is, that +by our conduct and behaviour we should edify our neighbours, and give +them good example by our actions. If there be any virtue, if any praise +of discipline. . .that those in error, by seeing the morality and good +discipline of the true religion, may be converted. And finally, the +apostle commands, not only the Philippians, but all Christians, to +think on these things. . .that is, to make it their study and concern +that the peace of God might be with them. + +4:9. The things which you have both learned and received and heard and +seen in me, these do ye: and the God of peace shall be with you. + +4:10. Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly that now at length your +thought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you +were busied. + +4:11. I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in +whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith. + +4:12. I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound +(every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to +be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need. + +4:13. I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me. + +4:14. Nevertheless, you have done well in communicating to my +tribulation. + +4:15. And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the +gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me +as concerning giving and receiving, but you only. + +4:16. For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use. + +4:17. Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to +your account. + +4:18. But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from +Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable +sacrifice, pleasing to God. + +4:19. And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in +glory in Christ Jesus. + +4:20. Now to God and our Father be glory, world without end. Amen. + +4:21. Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus. + +4:22. The brethren who are with me salute you. All the saints salute +you: especially they that are of Caesar's household. + +4:23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS + + + +Colossa was a city of Phrygia, near Laodicea. It does not appear that +St. Paul had preached there himself, but that the Colossians were +converted by Epaphras, a disciple of the Apostles. However, as St. Paul +was the great Apostle of the Gentiles, he wrote this Epistle to the +Colossians when he was in prison, and about the same time that he wrote +to the Ephesians and Philippians. The exhortations and doctrine it +contains are similar to that which is set forth in his Epistle to the +Ephesians. + + + +Colossians Chapter 1 + + +He gives thanks for the grace bestowed upon the Colossians and prays +for them. Christ is the head of the church and the peacemaker through +his blood. Paul is his minister. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, +a brother: + +1:2. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus who are at +Colossa. + +1:3. Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus +Christ, praying always for you. + +1:4. Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have +towards all the saints. + +1:5. For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have +heard in the word of the truth of the gospel, + +1:6. Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and +bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day +you heard and knew the grace of God in truth. + +1:7. As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who +is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus; + +1:8. Who also hath manifested your love in the spirit. + +1:9. Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to +pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of +his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding: + +1:10. That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being +fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God: + +1:11. Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, +in all patience and longsuffering with joy, + +1:12. Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be +partakers of the lot of the saints in light: + +1:13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath +translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, + +1:14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of +sins: + +1:15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every +creature: + +The firstborn. . .That is, first begotten; as the Evangelist declares, +the only begotten of his Father: hence, St. Chrisostom explains +firstborn, not first created, as he was not created at all, but born of +his Father before all ages; that is, coeval with the Father and with +the Holy Ghost. + +1:16. For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, +visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or +principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him. + +1:17. And he is before all: and by him all things consist. + +1:18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, +the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the +primacy: + +1:19. Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness +should dwell: + +1:20. And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making +peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on +earth and the things that are in heaven. + +1:21. And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind +in evil works: + +1:22. Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through +death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him: + +1:23. If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and +immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is +preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am +made a minister. + +1:24. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things +that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his +body, which is the church: + +Wanting. . .There is no want in the sufferings of Christ in himself as +head: but many sufferings are still wanting, or are still to come, in +his body the church, and his members the faithful. + +1:25. Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of +God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God: + +1:26. The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but +now is manifested to his saints, + +1:27. To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this +mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory. + +1:28. Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in +all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. + +1:29. Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he +worketh in me in power. + + + +Colossians Chapter 2 + + +He warns them against the impostures of the philosophers and the Jewish +teachers, that would withdraw them from Christ. + +2:1. For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and +for them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in +the flesh: + +2:2. That their hearts may be comforted, being instructed in charity +and unto all riches of fulness of understanding, unto the knowledge of +the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus: + +2:3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. + +2:4. Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words. + +2:5. For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you, +rejoicing, and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith +which is in Christ. + +2:6. As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in +him: + +2:7. Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you +have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving. + +2:8. Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: +according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the +world and not according to Christ. + +2:9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally. + +2:10. And you are filled in him, who is the head of all principality +and power. + +2:11. In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by +hand in despoiling of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of +Christ. + +2:12. Buried with him in baptism: in whom also you are risen again by +the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him up from the dead. + +2:13. And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision +of your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, forgiving you all +offences: + +2:14. Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, +which was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way, +fastening it to the cross. + +2:15. And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed +them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself. + +2:16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect +of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths, + +In meat, etc. . .He means with regard to the Jewish observations of the +distinction of clean and unclean meats; and of their festivals, new +moons, and sabbaths, as being no longer obligatory. + +2:17. Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ. + +2:18. Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of +angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up +by the sense of his flesh: + +Willing, etc. . .That is, by a self willed, self invented, superstitious +worship, falsely pretending humility, but really proceeding from pride. +Such was the worship, that many of the philosophers (against whom St. +Paul speaks, ver. 8) paid to angels or demons, by sacrificing to them, +as carriers of intelligence betwixt God and men; pretending humility in +so doing, as if God was too great to be addressed by men; and setting +aside the mediatorship of Jesus Christ, who is the head both of angels +and men. Such also was the worship paid by the ancient heretics, +disciples of Simon and Menander, to the angels, whom they believed to +be makers and lords of this lower world. This is certain, that they +whom the apostle here condemns, did not hold the head, (ver. 19,) that +is, Jesus Christ, and his mediatorship; and therefore what he writes +here no way touches the Catholic doctrine and practice, of desiring our +good angels to pray to God for us, through Jesus Christ. St. Jerome +[Epist. ad Algas.] understands by the religion or service of angels, +the Jewish teachers, who sought to subject the new Christians to the +observance of the Mosaic law. + +2:19. And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints +and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into +the increase of God. + +2:20. If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, +why do you yet decree as though living in the world? + +2:21. Touch not: taste not: handle not. + +Touch not, etc. . .The meaning is, that Christians should not subject +themselves, either to the ordinances of the old law, forbidding +touching or tasting things unclean; or to the superstitious invention +of heretics, imposing such restraints, under pretence of wisdom, +humility, or mortification. + +2:22. Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the +precepts and doctrines of men. + +2:23. Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and +humility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of +the flesh. + + + +Colossians Chapter 3 + + +He exhorts them to put off the old man, and to put on the new. The +duties of wives and husbands, children and servants. + +3:1. Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are +above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. + +3:2. Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the +earth. + +3:3. For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. + +3:4. When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall +appear with him in glory. + +3:5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: +fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, +which is the service of idols. + +3:6. For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of +unbelief. + +3:7. In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them. + +3:8. But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, +blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth. + +3:9. Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with +his deeds, + +3:10. And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, +according to the image of him that created him. + +3:11. Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor +uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is +all and in all. + +3:12. Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the +bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: + +3:13. Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a +complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do +you also. + +3:14. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of +perfection. + +3:15. And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also +you are called in one body: and be ye thankful. + +3:16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, +teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual +canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. + +3:17. All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of +the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. + +3:18. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord. + +3:19. Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them. + +3:20. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well +pleasing to the Lord. + +3:21. Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be +discouraged. + +3:22. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: +not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, +fearing God. + +3:23. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not +to men: + +3:24. Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of +inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ. + +3:25. For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done +wrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God. + + + +Colossians Chapter 4 + + +He recommends constant prayer and wisdom. Various salutations. + +4:1. Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing +that you also have a master in heaven. + +4:2. Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving. + +4:3. Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of +speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound): + +4:4. That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak. + +4:5. Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the +time. + +4:6. Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you +may know how you ought to answer every man. + +4:7. All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother and +faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to +you. + +4:8. What I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know +the things that concern you and comfort your hearts: + +4:9. With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of +you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you. + +4:10. Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you: and Mark, the +cousin german of Barnabas, touching whom you have received +commandments. If he come unto you, receive him. + +4:11. And Jesus that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision. +These only are my helpers, in the kingdom of God: who have been a +comfort to me. + +4:12. Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ +Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand +perfect and full in all the will of God. + +4:13. For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for +them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis. + +4:14. Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas. + +4:15. Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the +church that is in his house. + +4:16. And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that +it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that +which is of the Laodiceans. + +And that you read that which is of the Laodiceans. . .What this epistle +was is uncertain, and annotators have given different opinions +concerning it. Some expound these words of an epistle which St. Paul +wrote to the Laodiceans, and is since lost, for that now extant is no +more than a collection of sentences out of the other epistles of St. +Paul; therefore it cannot be considered even as a part of that epistle. +Others explain that the text means a letter sent to St. Paul by the +Laodiceans, which he sends to the Colossians to be read by them. +However, this opinion does not seem well founded. Hence it is more +probable that St. Paul wrote an epistle from Rome to the Laodiceans, +about the same time that he wrote to the Colossians, as he had them +both equally at heart, and that he ordered that epistle to be read by +the Colossians for their instructions; and being neighbouring cities, +they might communicate to each other what they had received from him; +as one epistle might contain some matters not related in the other, and +would be equally useful for their concern; and more particularly as +they were equally disturbed by intruders and false teachers, against +which the apostle was anxious to warn them, lest they should be +infected by their pernicious doctrine. + +4:17. And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast +received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. + +4:18. The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. +Grace be with you. Amen. + + + + +THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS + + + +Thessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, in which St. Paul, having +preached the Gospel, converted some Jews and a great number of the +Gentiles: but the unbelieving Jews, envying his success, raised such a +commotion against him that he, and his companion, Sylvanus were obliged +to quit the city. Afterwards he went to Athens, where he heard that the +converts in Thessalonica were under a severe persecution, ever since +his departure; and lest they should lose their fortitude, he sent +Timothy to strengthen and comfort them in their sufferings. In the +meantime St. Paul came to Corinth, where he wrote this first Epistle, +and also the second to the Thessalonians, both in the same year, being +the nineteenth after our Lord's Ascension. These are the first of his +Epistles in the order of time. + + + +1 Thessalonians Chapter 1 + + +He gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians. + +1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians: +in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:2. Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you +all: making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing, + +1:3. Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: +and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and +our Father. + +1:4. Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election: + +1:5. For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power +also: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what +manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. + +1:6. And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word +in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost: + +1:7. So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia +and in Achaia. + +1:8. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not only in +Macedonia and in Achaia but also in every place: your faith which is +towards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing. + +1:9. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we +had unto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living +and true God. + +1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the +dead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come. + + + +1 Thessalonians Chapter 2 + + +The sincerity of the apostle's preaching the gospel to them and of +their receiving it. + +2:1. For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it +was not in vain: + +2:2. But having suffered many things before and been shamefully +treated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to +speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness. + +2:3. For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in +deceit. + +2:4. But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed +to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our +hearts. + +2:5. For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as +you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness): + +2:6. Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others. + +2:7. Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of +Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse +should cherish her children: + +2:8. So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the +gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear +unto us. + +2:9. For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and +day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you +the gospel of God. + +2:10. You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and +without blame we have been to you that have believed: + +2:11. As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a +father doth his children), + +2:12. We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of +God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. + +2:14. For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God +which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the +same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews: + +2:15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have +persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; + +2:16. Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, +to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to +the end. + +To fill up their sins. . .That is, to fill up the measure of their sins, +after which God's justice would punish them. For the wrath of God is +come upon them to the end. . .That is, to continue on them to the end. + +2:17. But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in +sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face +with great desire. + +2:18. For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: +but Satan hath hindered us. + +2:19. For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in +the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? + +2:20. For you are our glory and joy. + + + +1 Thessalonians Chapter 3 + + +The apostle's concern and love for the Thessalonians. + +3:1. For which cause, forbearing no longer, we thought it good to +remain at Athens alone. + +3:2. And we sent Timothy, our brother and the minister of God in the +gospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith: + +3:3. That no man should be moved in these tribulations: for yourselves +know that we are appointed thereunto. + +3:4. For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should +suffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know. + +3:5. For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your +faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our +labour should be made vain. + +3:6. But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your +faith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, +desiring to see us as we also to see you: + +3:7. Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our +necessity and tribulation, by your faith. + +3:8. Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord. + +3:9. For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy +wherewith we rejoice for you before our God, + +3:10. Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face +and may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith? + +3:11. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct +our way unto you. + +3:12. And may the Lord multiply you and make you abound in charity +towards one another and towards all men: as we do also towards you, + +3:13. To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and +our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his +saints. Amen. + + + +1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 + + +He exhorts them to purity and mutual charity. He treats of the +resurrection of the dead. + +4:1. For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord +Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to +please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. + +4:2. For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus. + +4:3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should +abstain from fornication: + +4:4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in +sanctification and honour, + +4:5. Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God: + +4:6. And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: +because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told +you before and have testified. + +4:7. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto +sanctification. + +4:8. Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but +God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us. + +4:9. But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to +write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another. + +4:10. For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia. +But we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more: + +4:11. And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your +own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and +that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want +nothing of any man's. + +4:12. And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that +are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. + +4:13. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them +who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. + +4:14. For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are +alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them +who have slept. + +4:15. For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment +and with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the +dead who are in Christ shall rise first. + +4:16. Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together +with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we +be always with the Lord. + +4:17. Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words. + + + +1 Thessalonians Chapter 5 + + +The day of the Lord shall come when least expected. Exhortations to +several duties. + +5:1. But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we +should write to you: + +5:2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so +come as a thief in the night. + +5:3. For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden +destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, +and they shall not escape. + +5:4. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should +overtake you as a thief. + +5:5. For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we +are not of the night nor of darkness. + +5:6. Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and +be sober. + +5:7. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, +are drunk in the night. + +5:8. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast +plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation. + +5:9. For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the purchasing +of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, + +5:10. Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live +together with him. + +5:11. For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you +also do. + +5:12. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you +and are over you in the Lord and admonish you; + +5:13. That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's +sake. Have peace with them. + +5:14. And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the +feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men. + +The unquiet. . .That is, such as are irregular and disorderly. + +5:15. See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow +that which is good towards each other and towards all men. + +5:16. Always rejoice. + +5:17. Pray without ceasing. + +5:18. In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ +Jesus concerning you all. + +5:19. Extinguish not the spirit. + +5:20. Despise not prophecies. + +5:21. But prove all things: hold fast that which is good. + +5:22. From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves. + +5:23. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that +your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the +coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +5:24. He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it. + +5:25. Brethren, pray for us. + +5:26. Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss. + +5:27. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the +holy brethren. + +5:28. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. + + + + +THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS + + + +In this Epistle St. Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be constant in +the faith of Christ and not to be terrified by the insinuations of +false teachers telling them that the day of judgment was near at hand, +as there must come many signs and wonders before it. He bids them to +hold firm the traditions received from him, whether by word, or by +epistle, and shews them how they may be certain of his letters by the +manner he writes. + + + +2 Thessalonians Chapter 1 + + +He gives thanks to God for their faith and constancy and prays for +their advancement in all good. + +1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians. +In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, + +1:2. Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:3. We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it +is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of +every one of you towards each other aboundeth. + +1:4. So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for +your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: +which you endure + +1:5. For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be +counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer. + +1:6. Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them +that trouble you: + +1:7. And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus +shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power: + +1:8. In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and +who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:9. Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face +of the Lord and from the glory of his power: + +1:10. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made +wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was +believed upon you in that day. + +1:11. Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make +you worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his +goodness and the work of faith in power: + +1:12. That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you +in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. + + + +2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 + + +The day of the Lord is not to come till the man of sin be revealed. The +apostle's traditions are to be observed. + +2:1. And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus +Christ and of our gathering together unto him: + +2:2. That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified, +neither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle. as sent from us, as if +the day of the Lord were at hand. + +2:3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a +revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition + +A revolt. . .This revolt, or falling off, is generally understood, by +the ancient fathers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was first +to be destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist. It may, perhaps, be +understood also of a revolt of many nations from the Catholic Church; +which has, in part, happened already, by means of Mahomet, Luther, &c., +and it may be supposed, will be more general in the days of the +Antichrist. The man of sin. . .Here must be meant some particular man, +as is evident from the frequent repetition of the Greek article: o`, +'the' man of sin, 'the' son of perdition, 'the' adversary or opposer. +It agrees to the wicked and great Antichrist, who will come before the +end of the world. + +2:4. Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that +is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself +as if he were God. + +In the temple. . .Either that of Jerusalem which some think he will +rebuild; or in some Christian church, which he will pervert to his own +worship: as Mahomet has done by the churches of the east. + +2:5. Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these +things? + +2:6. And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his +time. + +2:7. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now +holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way. + +2:8. And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus +shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the +brightness of his coming: him + +2:9. Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power +and signs and lying wonders: + +2:10. And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because +they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. +Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: + +God shall send. . .That is God shall suffer them to be deceived by lying +wonders, and false miracles, in punishment of their not entertaining +the love of truth. + +2:11. That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have +consented to iniquity. + +2:12. But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, +beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto +salvation, in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth: + +2:13. Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the +purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +2:14. Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which +you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle. + +Traditions. . .See here that the unwritten traditions are no less to be +received than their epistles. + +2:15. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who +hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope +in grace, + +2:16. Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word. + + + +2 Thessalonians Chapter 3 + + +He begs their prayers and warns them against idleness. + +3:1. For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run +and may be glorified, even as among you: + +May run. . .That is, may spread itself, and have free course. + +3:2. And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for +all men have not faith. + +3:3. But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil. + +3:4. And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things +which we command, you both do and will do. + +3:5. And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the +patience of Christ. + +3:6. And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, +that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and +not according to the tradition which they have received of us. + +3:7. For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not +disorderly among you. + +3:8. Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and +in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of +you. + +3:9. Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a +pattern unto you, to imitate us. + +3:10. For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, +if any man will not work, neither let him eat. + +3:11. For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: +working not at all, but curiously meddling. + +3:12. Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord +Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own +bread. + +3:13. But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing. + +3:14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man +and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. + +3:15. Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother. + +3:16. Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every +place. The Lord be with you all. + +3:17. The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in +every epistle. So I write. + +3:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. + + + + +THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY + + + +St. Paul write this Epistle to his BELOVED TIMOTHY, being then bishop +of Ephesus, to instruct him in the duties of a bishop, both in respect +to himself and to his charge; and that he ought to be well informed of +the good morals of those on whom he was to impose hands: Impose not +hands lightly upon any man. He tells him also how he should behave +towards his clergy. The Epistle was written about 33 years after our +Lord's Ascension; but where it was written is uncertain: the more +general opinion is, that it was in Macedonia. + + + +1 Timothy Chapter 1 + + +He puts Timothy in mind of his charge and blesses God for the mercy he +himself had received. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of +God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope: + +1:2. To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy and peace, from +God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. + +1:3. As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, +that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise: + +1:4. Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish +questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith. + +1:5. Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a +good conscience, and an unfeigned faith. + +1:6. From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain +babbling: + +1:7. Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the +things they say, nor whereof they affirm. + +1:8. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully. + +1:9. Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for +the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the +wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, +for manslayers, + +The law is not. . .He means, that the just man doth good, and avoideth +evil, not as compelled by the law, and merely for fear of the +punishment appointed for transgressors; but voluntarily, and out of the +love of God and virtue; and would do so, though there were no law. + +1:10. For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for +menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing +is contrary to sound doctrine: + +1:11. Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God +which hath been committed to my trust. + +1:12. I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus +our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the +ministry: + +1:13. Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. +But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in +unbelief. + +1:14. Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith +and love, which is in Christ Jesus. + +1:15. A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ +Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief. + +1:16. But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ +Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that +shall believe in him unto life everlasting. + +1:17. Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be +honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. + +1:18. This precept, I commend to thee, O son Timothy: according to the +prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare, + +1:19. Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have +made shipwreck concerning the faith. + +1:20. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to +Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. + + + +1 Timothy Chapter 2 + + +Prayers are to be said for all men, because God wills the salvation of +all. Women are not to teach. + +2:1. I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, +intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men: + +2:2. For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a +quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity. + +2:3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, + +2:4. Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of +the truth. + +2:5. For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man +Christ Jesus: + +One mediator. . .Christ is the one and only mediator of redemption, who +gave himself, as the apostle writes in the following verse. + +2:6. Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times. + +a redemption for all. . . He is also the only mediator, who stands in +need of no other to recommend his petitions to the Father. But this is +not against our seeking the prayers and intercession, as well of the +faithful upon earth, as of the saints and angels in heaven, for +obtaining mercy, grace, and salvation, through Jesus Christ. As St. +Paul himself often desired the help of the prayers of the faithful, +without any injury to the mediatorship of Jesus Christ. + +2:7. Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the +truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth. + +2:8. I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure +hands, without anger and contention. + +2:9. In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves +with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, +or costly attire: + +2:10. But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works. + +2:11. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. + +2:12. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the +man: but to be in silence. + +2:13.For Adam was first formed; then Eve. + +2:14. And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in +the transgression. + +2:15. Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in +faith and love and sanctification with sobriety. + + + +1 Timothy Chapter 3 + + +What sort of men are to be admitted into the clergy. The church is the +pillar of truth. + +3:1. A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he +desireth good work. + +3:2. It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one +wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, +a teacher, + +Of one wife. . . The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife +(for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to +the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more +than once. + +3:3. Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not +covetous, but + +3:4. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in +subjection with all chastity. + +3:5. But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take +care of the church of God? + +3:6. Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the +judgment of the devil. + +A neophyte. . . That is, one lately baptized, a young convert. + +3:7. Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: +lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. + +3:8. Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to +much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: + +3:9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience. + +3:10. And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, +having no crime. + +3:11. The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, +faithful in all things. + +3:12. Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their +children and their own houses. + +3:13. For they that have ministered well shall purchase to themselves a +good degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. + +3:14. These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee +shortly. + +3:15. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to +behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living +God, the pillar and ground of the truth. + +The pillar and ground of the truth. . . Therefore the church of the +living God can never uphold error, nor bring in corruptions, +superstition, or idolatry. + +3:16. And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was +manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto +angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, +is taken up in glory. + + + +1 Timothy Chapter 4 + + +He warns him against heretics, and exhorts him to the exercise of +piety. + +4:1. Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall +depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of +devils, + +4:2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared, + +4:3. Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created +to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have +known the truth. + +Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats. . . He speaks of the +Gnostics, the Marcionites, the Eneratites, the Manicheans, and other +ancient heretics, who absolutely condemned marriage, and the use of all +kind of meat; because they pretended that all flesh was from an evil +principle. Whereas the church of God, so far from condemning marriage, +holds it a holy sacrament; and forbids it to none but such as by vow +have chosen the better part: and prohibits not the use of any meats +whatsoever in proper times and seasons; though she does not judge all +kind of diet proper for days of fasting and penance. + +4:4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that +is received with thanksgiving: + +4:5. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. + +4:6. These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good +minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the +good doctrine which thou hast attained unto. + +4:7. But avoid foolish and old wives fables: and exercise thyself unto +godliness. + +4:8. For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is +profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of +that which is to come. + +4:9. A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. + +4:10. For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the +living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. + +4:11. These things command and teach: + +4:12. Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the +faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity. + +4:13. Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine. + +4:14. Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by +prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood. + +4:15. Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy +profiting may be manifest to all. + +4:16. Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in +doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee. + + + +1 Timothy Chapter 5 + + +He gives him lessons concerning widows, and how he is to behave to his +clergy. + +5:1. An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, +as brethren: + +5:2. Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity. + +5:3. Honour widows that are widows indeed. + +5:4. But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn +first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her +parents; for this is acceptable before God. + +5:5. But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God +and continue in supplications and prayers night and day. + +5:6. For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living. + +5:7. And this give in charge, that they may be blameless. + +5:8. But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of +his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. + +5:9. Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who +hath been the wife of one husband. + +5:10. Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up +children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the +saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, +if she have diligently followed every good work. + +5:11. But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in +Christ, they will marry: + +5:12. Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith. + +Their first faith. . . Their vow, by which they had engaged themselves +to Christ. + +5:13. And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: +and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking +things which they ought not. + +5:14. I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, +be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak +evil. + +5:15. For some are already turned aside after Satan. + +5:16. If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and +let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them +that are widows indeed. + +5:17. Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double +honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. + +5:18. For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that +treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward. + +5:19. Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or +three witnesses. + +5:20. Them that sin reprove before all that the rest also may have +fear. + +5:21. I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, +that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by +declining to either side. + +5:22. Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of +other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste. + +5:23. Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's +sake and thy frequent infirmities. + +5:24. Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some +men they follow after. + +5:25. In like manner also good deeds are manifest: and they that are +otherwise cannot be hid. + + + +1 Timothy Chapter 6 + + +Duties of servants. The danger of covetousness. Lessons for the rich. + +6:1. Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their +masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his +doctrine be blasphemed. + +6:2. But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, +because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are +faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things +teach and exhort. + +6:3. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of +our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to +godliness, + +6:4. He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes +of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil +suspicions, + +6:5. Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the +truth, supposing gain to be godliness. + +6:6. But godliness with contentment is great gain. + +6:7. For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry +nothing out. + +6:8. But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are +content. + +6:9. For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the +snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, +which drown men into destruction and perdition. + +6:10. For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some +coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in +many sorrows. + +6:11. But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, +godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness. + +6:12. Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, +whereunto thou art called and be it confessed a good confession before +many witnesses. + +6:13. I charge thee before God who quickeneth all things, and before +Christ Jesus who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good +confession: + +6:14. That thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, unto the +coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, + +6:15. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the Blessed and only +Mighty, the King of kings and Lord of lords: + +6:16. Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom +no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire +everlasting. Amen. + +6:17. Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust +in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us +abundantly all things to enjoy) + +6:18. To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to +communicate to others, + +6:19. To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the +time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life. + +6:20. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding +the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so +called. + +6:21. Which some promising, have erred concerning the faith. Grace be +with thee. Amen. + + + + +THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY + + + +In this Epistle, the Apostle again instructs and admonishes Timothy in +what belonged to his office, as in the former; and also warns him to +shun the conversation of those who had erred from the truth, describing +at the same time their character, He tells him of his approaching death +and desires him to come speedily to him. It appears from this +circumstance that he wrote this second Epistle in the time of his last +imprisonment at Rome and not long before his martyrdom. + + + +2 Timothy Chapter 1 + + +He admonishes him to stir up the grace he received by his ordination +and not to be discouraged at his sufferings, but to hold firm the sound +doctrine of the gospel. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to +the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus: + +1:2. To Timothy, my dearly beloved son. Grace, mercy and peace, from +God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. + +1:3. I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with a +pure conscience, that without ceasing I have a remembrance of thee in +my prayers, night and day. + +1:4. Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be +filled with joy: + +1:5. Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also +dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am +certain that in thee also. + +1:6. For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God +which is in thee by the imposition of my hands. + +1:7. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of +love and of sobriety. + +1:8. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of +me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of +God. + +1:9. Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not +according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, +which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world: + +1:10. But is now made manifest by the illumination of our Saviour Jesus +Christ, who hath destroyed death and hath brought to light life and +incorruption by the gospel. + +By the illumination. . .That is, by the bright coming and appearing of +our Saviour. + +1:11. Wherein I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and teacher of +the Gentiles. + +1:12. For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not +ashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is +able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day. + +1:13. Hold the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me: in +faith and in the love which is in Christ Jesus. + +1:14. Keep the good thing committed to thy trust by the Holy Ghost who +dwelleth in us. + +1:15. Thou knowest this, that all they who are in Asia are turned away +from me: of whom are Phigellus and Hermogenes. + +1:16. The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath +often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain: + +1:17. But when he was come to Rome, he carefully sought me and found +me. + +1:18. The Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day. +And in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou very well +knowest. + + + +2 Timothy Chapter 2 + + +He exhorts him to diligence in his office and patience in suffering. +The danger of the delusions of heretics. + +2:1. Thou therefore, my son, be strong in Christ Jesus: + +2:2. And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the +same commend to faithful men who shall be fit to teach others also. + +2:3. Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. + +2:4. No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular +businesses: that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself. + +2:5. For he also that striveth for the mastery is not crowned, except +he strive lawfully. + +2:6. The husbandman that laboureth must first partake of the fruits. + +2:7. Understand what I say: for the Lord will give thee in all things +understanding. + +2:8. Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ is risen again from the +dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel: + +2:9. Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of +God is not bound. + +2:10. Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that +they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with +heavenly glory. + +2:11. A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also +with him. + +2:12. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he +will also deny us. + +2:13. If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny +himself. + +2:14. Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. +Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of +the hearers. + +2:15. Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman +that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. + +2:16. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards +ungodliness. + +2:17. And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus +and Philetus: + +2:18. Who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection is +past already, and have subverted the faith of some. + +2:19. But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: +the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity +who nameth the name of the Lord. + +2:20. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of +silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but +some unto dishonour. + +2:21. If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall +be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, +prepared unto every good work. + +2:22. But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, +charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. + +2:23. And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they +beget strifes. + +2:24. But the servant of the Lord must not wrangle: but be mild toward +all men, apt to teach, patient, + +2:25. With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if +peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth; + +2:26. And they may recover themselves from the snares of the devil by +whom they are held captive at his will. + + + +2 Timothy Chapter 3 + + +The character of heretics of latter days. He exhorts Timothy to +constancy. Of the great profit of the knowledge of the scriptures. + +3:1. Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times. + +3:2. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, +blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, + +3:3. Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, +unmerciful, without kindness, + +3:4. Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of +God: + +3:5. Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power +thereof. Now these avoid. + +3:6. For of these sort are they who creep into houses and lead captive +silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires: + +3:7. Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth. + +3:8. Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the +truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. + +Jannes and Mambres. . .The magicians of king Pharao. + +3:9. But they shall proceed no farther: for their folly shall be +manifest to all men, as theirs also was. + +3:10. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, +faith, longsuffering, love, patience, + +3:11. Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at +Iconium and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all +the Lord delivered me. + +3:12. And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer +persecution. + +3:13. But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and +driving into error, + +3:14. But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned and +which have been committed to thee. Knowing of whom thou hast learned +them: + +3:15. And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures +which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ +Jesus. + +3:16. All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to +reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: + +All scripture,. . .Every part of divine scripture is certainly +profitable for all these ends. But, if we would have the whole rule of +Christian faith and practice, we must not be content with those +Scriptures, which Timothy knew from his infancy, that is, with the Old +Testament alone: nor yet with the New Testament, without taking along +with it the traditions of the apostles, and the interpretation of the +church, to which the apostles delivered both the book, and the true +meaning of it. + +3:17. That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work. + + + +2 Timothy Chapter 4 + + +His charge to Timothy. He tells him of his approaching death and +desires him to come to him. + +4:1. I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the +living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom: + +4:2. Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, +entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. + +4:3. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine +but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves +teachers having itching ears: + +4:4. And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will +be turned unto fables. + +4:5. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an +evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober. + +An evangelist. . .a diligent preacher of the gospel. + +4:6. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my +dissolution is at hand. + +4:7. I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept +the faith. + +4:8. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which +the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to +me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me +quickly. + +4:9. For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to +Thessalonica: + +4:10. Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia. + +4:11. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee: for he +is profitable to me for the ministry. + +4:12. But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. + +4:13. The cloak that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest, +bring with thee: and the books, especially the parchments. + +4:14. Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will +reward him according to his works: + +4:15. Whom do thou also avoid: for he hath greatly withstood our words. + +4:16. At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May +it not be laid to their charge! + +4:17. But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the +preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I +was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. + +4:18. The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve +me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. + +4:19. Salute Prisca, and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. + +4:20. Erastus remained at Corinth. And Trophimus I left sick at +Miletus. + +4:21. Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus +and Claudia and all the brethren, salute thee. + +4:22. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. +Amen. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TITUS + + + +St. Paul, having preached the faith in the island of Crete, he ordained +his beloved disciple and companion, Titus, bishop, and left him there +to finish the work which he had begun. Afterwards the Apostle, on a +journey to Nicopolis, a city of Macedonia, wrote this Epistle to Titus, +in which he directs him to ordain bishops and priests for the different +cities, shewing him the principal qualities necessary for a bishop. He +also gives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock, +exhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with +lenity. It was written about thirty-three years after our Lord's +Ascension. + + + +Titus Chapter 1 + + +What kind of men he is to ordain priests. Some men are to be sharply +rebuked. + +1:1. Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according +to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, +which is according to godliness: + +1:2. Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath +promised before the times of the world: + +1:3. But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is +committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour: + +1:4. To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and +peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Saviour. + +1:5. For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in +order the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every +city, as I also appointed thee: + +1:6. If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful +children, not accused of riot or unruly. + +1:7. For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not +proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy +of filthy lucre: + +1:8. But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent: + +1:9. Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that +he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the +gainsayers. + +1:10. For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: +especially they who are of the circumcision. + +1:11. Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things +which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. + +1:12. One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always +liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies. + +1:13. This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they +may be sound in the faith: + +1:14. Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn +themselves away from the truth. + +1:15. All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled +and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their +conscience are defiled. + +1:16. They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny +him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate. + + + +Titus Chapter 2 + + +How he is to instruct both old and young. The duty of servants. The +Christian's rule of life. + +2:1. But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine: + +2:2. That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in +love, in patience. + +2:3. The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false +accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well: + +2:4. That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their +husbands, to love their children. + +2:5. To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, +obedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed. + +2:6. Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober. + +2:7. In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, +in integrity, in gravity, + +2:8. The sound word that can not be blamed: that he who is on the +contrary part may be afraid, having no evil to say of us. + +2:9. Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things +pleasing, not gainsaying: + +2:10. Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that +they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. + +2:11. For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: + +2:12. Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we +should live soberly and justly and godly in this world, + +2:13. Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great +God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. + +2:14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all +iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of +good works. + +2:15. These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let +no man despise thee. + + + +Titus Chapter 3 + + +Other instructions and directions for life and doctrine. + +3:1. Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a +word, to be ready to every good work. + +3:2. To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing +all mildness towards all men. + +3:3. For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, +slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, +hateful and hating one another. + +3:4. But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared: + +3:5. Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to +his mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration and renovation of +the Holy Ghost. + +3:6. Whom he hath poured forth upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ +our Saviour: + +3:7. That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to +hope of life everlasting. + +3:8. It is a faithful saying. And these things I will have thee affirm +constantly, that they who believe in God may be careful to excel in +good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. + +3:9. But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and +strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain. + +3:10. A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, +avoid: + +3:11. Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth, +being condemned by his own judgment. + +By his own judgment. . .Other offenders are judged, and cast out of the +church, by the sentence of the pastors of the same church. Heretics, +more unhappy, run out of the church of their own accord, and by doing +so, give judgment and sentence against their own souls. + +3:12. When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come +unto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter. + +3:13. Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollo, with care that nothing +be wanting to them. + +3:14. And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary +uses: that they be not unfruitful. + +3:15. All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in the +faith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO PHILEMON + + + +Philemon, a noble citizen of Colossa, had a servant named Onesimus, who +robbed him and fled to Rome, where he met St. Paul, who was then a +prisoner there the first time. The apostle took compassion on him and +received him with tenderness and converted him to the faith; for he was +a Gentile before. St. Paul sends him back to his master with this +Epistle in his favour: and though he beseeches Philemon to pardon him, +yet the Apostle writes with becoming dignity and authority. It contains +divers profitable instructions and points out the charity and humanity +that masters should have for their servants. + + + +Philemon Chapter 1 + + +He commends the faith and charity of Philemon; and sends back to him +his fugitive servant, whom he had converted in prison. + +1:1. Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, a brother: to +Philemon, our beloved and fellow labourer, + +1:2. And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to Archippus, our fellow +soldier, and to the church which is in thy house. + +1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:4. I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my +prayers. + +1:5. Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord +Jesus and towards all the saints: + +1:6. That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the +acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus. + +1:7. For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because +the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother. + +1:8. Wherefore, though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus to +command thee that which is to the purpose: + +1:9. For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as +Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ. + +1:10. I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, +Onesimus, + +1:11. Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is +profitable both to me and thee: + +1:12. Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own +bowels. + +1:13. Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might +have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel. + +1:14. But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed +might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary. + +1:15. For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee that +thou mightest receive him again for ever: + +1:16. Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear +brother, especially to me. But how much more to thee, both in the flesh +and in the Lord? + +1:17. If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself. + +1:18. And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put +that to my account. + +1:19. I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to +say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also. + +1:20. Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in +the Lord. + +1:21. Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that +thou wilt also do more than I say. + +1:22. But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through +your prayers I shall be given unto you. + +1:23. There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus: + +1:24. Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow labourers. + +1:25. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. + + + + +THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE HEBREWS + + + +St. Paul wrote this Epistle to the Christians in Palestine, the most +part of whom being Jews before their conversion, they were called +Hebrews. He exhorts them to be thoroughly converted and confirmed in +the faith of Christ, clearly shewing them the preeminence of Christ's +priesthood above the Levitical, and also the excellence of the new law +above the old. He commends faith by the example of the ancient fathers: +and exhorts them to patience and perseverance and to remain in +fraternal charity. It appears from chap. 13 that this Epistle was +written in Italy, and probably at Rome, about twenty-nine years after +our Lord's Ascension. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 1 + + +God spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who is +incomparably greater than the angels. + +1:1. God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times +past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all, + +1:2. In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath +appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world. + +1:3. Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his +substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making +purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high: + +The figure. . .that is, the express image, and most perfect resemblance. +Making purgation. . .That is, having purged away our sins by his +passion. + +1:4. Being made so much better than the angels as he hath inherited a +more excellent name than they. + +1:5. For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art my +Son, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, +and he shall be to me a Son? + +1:6. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, +he saith: And let all the angels of God adore him. + +1:7. And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels +spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. + +1:8. But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre +of justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom. + +1:9. Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy +God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. + +1:10. And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth: and +the works of thy hands are the heavens. + +1:11. They shall perish: but thou shalt continue: and they shall all +grow old as a garment. + +1:12. And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be +changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail. + +1:13. But to which of the angels said he at any time: Sit on my right +hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool? + +1:14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them +who shall receive the inheritance of salvation? + + + +Hebrews Chapter 2 + + +The transgression of the precepts of the Son of God is far more +condemnable than of those of the Old Testament given by angels. + +2:1. Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we +have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. + +2:2. For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every +transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: + +2:3. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, +having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them +that heard him. + +2:4. God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers +miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own +will. + +2:5. For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof +we speak. + +2:6. But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, +that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest +him? + +2:7. Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast +crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of +thy hands. + +2:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath +subjected all things to him he left nothing not subject to him. But now +we see not as yet all things subject to him. + +2:9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for +the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through +the grace of God he might taste death for all. + +2:10. For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all +things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author +of their salvation, by his passion. + +Perfect by his passion. . .By suffering, Christ was to enter into his +glory, Luke 24.26, which the apostle here calls being made perfect. + +2:11. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all +of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, +saying: + +2:12. I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the +church will I praise thee. + +2:13. And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and +my children, whom God hath given me. + +2:14. Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, +he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, +through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that +is to say, the devil: + +2:15. And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all +their lifetime subject to servitude. + +2:16. For nowhere doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of +Abraham he taketh hold. + +No where doth he, etc. . .That is, he never took upon him the nature of +angels, but that of the seed of Abraham. + +2:17. Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his +brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest +before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. + +2:18. For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he +is able to succour them also that are tempted. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 3 + + +Christ is more excellent than Moses. Wherefore we must adhere to him by +faith and obedience. + +3:1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation +consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus: + +3:2. Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his +house. + +3:3. For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so +much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the +house. + +3:4. For every house is built by some man: but he that created all +things is God. + +3:5. And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a +testimony of those things which were to be said: + +3:6. But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we +hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end. + +3:7. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his +voice, + +3:8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of +temptation in the desert, + +3:9. Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, + +3:10. Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, +and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways. + +3:11. As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest. + +3:12. Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil +heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. + +3:13. But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, +that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. + +3:14. For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the +beginning of his substance firm unto the end. + +3:15. While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not +your hearts, as in that provocation. + +3:16. For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of +Egypt by Moses. + +3:17. And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them +that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? + +3:18. And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his +rest: but to them that were incredulous? + +3:19. And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 4 + + +The Christian's rest. We are to enter into it through Jesus Christ. + +4:1. Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering +into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting. + +4:2. For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto +them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with +faith of those things they heard. + +4:3. For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I +have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this +indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished. + +4:4. For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God +rested the seventh day from all his works. + +4:5. And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest. + +4:6. Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they +to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief: + +4:7. Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David; To day, after so +long a time as it is above said: To day if you shall hear his voice, +harden not your hearts. + +4:8. For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards +spoken of another day. + +Jesus. . .Josue, who in Greek is called Jesus. + +4:9. There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God. + +4:10. For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested +from his works, as God did from his. + +4:11. Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man +fall into the same example of unbelief. + +4:12. For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing +than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul +and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner +of the thoughts and intents of the heart. + +4:13. Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all +things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is. + +4:14. Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the +heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. + +4:15. For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our +infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. + +4:16. Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that +we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 5 + + +The office of a high priest. Christ is our high priest. + +5:1. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in +the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and +sacrifices for sins: + +5:2. Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: +because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. + +5:3. And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to +offer for sins. + +5:4. Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is +called by God, as Aaron was. + +5:5. So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a +high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have +I begotten thee. + +5:6. As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, +according to the order of Melchisedech. + +5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, +offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him +from death, was heard for his reverence. + +5:8. And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by +the things which he suffered. + +5:9. And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause +of eternal salvation: + +5:10. Called by God a high priest, according to the order of +Melchisedech. + +5:11. Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: +because you are become weak to hear. + +5:12. For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need +to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and +you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. + +5:13. For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word +of justice: for he is a little child. + +5:14. But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have +their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 6 + + +He warns them of the danger of falling by apostasy and exhorts them to +patience and perseverance. + +6:1. Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go +on to things more perfect: not laying again the foundation of penance +from dead works and of faith towards God, + +The word of the beginning. . .The first rudiments of the Christian +doctrine. + +6:2. Of the doctrine of baptisms and imposition of hands, and of the +resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. + +6:3. And this will we do, if God permit. + +6:4. For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have +tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy +Ghost, + +It is impossible, etc. . .The meaning is, that it is impossible for such +as have fallen after baptism, to be again baptized; and very hard for +such as have apostatized from the faith, after having received many +graces, to return again to the happy state from which they fell. + +6:5. Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the +world to come, + +6:6. And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying +again to themselves the Son of God and making him a mockery. + +6:7. For the earth, that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon +it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, +receiveth blessing from God. + +6:8. But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and +very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt. + +6:9. But, my dearly beloved, we trust better things of you, and nearer +to salvation; though we speak thus. + +6:10. For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the +love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do +minister to the saints. + +6:11. And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same +carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end: + +6:12. That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through +faith and patience shall inherit the promises. + +6:13. For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater +by whom he might swear, swore by himself, + +6:14. Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I +shall multiply thee. + +6:15. And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise. + +6:16. For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for +confirmation is the end of all their controversy. + +6:17. Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the +promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: + +6:18. That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to +lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to +hold fast the hope set before us. + +6:19. Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which +entereth in even within the veil: + +6:20. Where the forerunner Jesus is entered for us, made a high priest +for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 7 + + +The priesthood of Christ according to the order of Melchisedech excels +the Levitical priesthood and puts an end both to that and to the law. + +7:1. For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high +God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and +blessed him: + +7:2. To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed +by interpretation is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that +is, king of peace: + +7:3. Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither +beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, +continueth a priest for ever. + +Without father, etc. . .Not that he had no father, etc., but that +neither his father, nor his pedigree, nor his birth, nor his death, are +set down in scripture. + +7:4. Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the +patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things. + +7:5. And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the +priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according +to the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves +also came out of the loins of Abraham. + +7:6. But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes +of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises. + +7:7. And without all contradiction, that which is less is blessed by +the better. + +7:8. And here indeed, men that die receive tithes: but there, he hath +witness that he liveth. + +7:9. And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes paid tithes +in Abraham: + +7:10. For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedech met +him. + +7:11. If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it +the people received the law), what further need was there that another +priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech: and not be +called according to the order of Aaron? + +7:12. For the priesthood being translated, it is necessary that a +translation also be made of the law, + +7:13. For he of whom these things are spoken is of another tribe, of +which no one attended on the altar. + +7:14. For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which +tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. + +7:15. And it is yet far more evident: if according to the similitude of +Melchisedech there ariseth another priest, + +7:16. Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal +commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life. + +7:17. For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever according to the +order of Melchisedech. + +7:18. There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, +because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof: + +7:19. For the law brought nothing to perfection: but a bringing in of a +better hope, by which we draw nigh to God. + +7:20. And inasmuch as it is not without an oath (for the others indeed +were made priests without an oath: + +7:21. But this with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord hath +sworn and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever). + +7:22. By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament. + +7:23. And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason +of death they were not suffered to continue: + +Many priests, etc. . .The apostle notes this difference between the high +priests of the law, and our high priest Jesus Christ; that they being +removed by death, made way for their successors; whereas our Lord Jesus +is a priest for ever, and hath no successor; but liveth and concurreth +for ever with his ministers, the priests of the new testament, in all +their functions. Also, that no one priest of the law, nor all of them +together, could offer that absolute sacrifice of everlasting +redemption, which our one high priest Jesus Christ has offered once, +and for ever. + +7:24. But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting +priesthood: + +7:25. Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by +him; always living to make intercession for us. + +Make intercession. . .Christ, as man, continually maketh intercession +for us, by representing his passion to his Father. + +7:26. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, +innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the +heavens: + +7:27. Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices, +first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did +once, in offering himself. + +7:28. For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word +of the oath (which was since the law) the Son who is perfected for +evermore. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 8 + + +More of the excellence of the priesthood of Christ and of the New +Testament. + +8:1. Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have +such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of +majesty in the heavens, + +8:2. A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the +Lord hath pitched, and not man. + +The holies. . .That is, the sanctuary. + +8:3. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: +wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer. + +8:4. If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that +there would be others to offer gifts according to the law. + +If then he were on earth, etc. . .That is, if he were not of a higher +condition than the Levitical order of earthly priests, and had not +another kind of sacrifice to offer, he should be excluded by them from +the priesthood, and its functions, which by the law were appropriated +to their tribe. + +8:5. Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it +was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith +he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn +thee on the mount. + +Who serve unto, etc. . .The priesthood of the law and its functions were +a kind of an example and shadow of what is done by Christ in his church +militant and triumphant, of which the tabernacle was a pattern. + +8:6. But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is +a mediator of a better testament which is established on better +promises. + +8:7. For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a +place have been sought for a second. + +8:8. For, finding fault with them, he saith: Behold the days shall +come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect, unto the house of Israel and +unto the house of Juda, a new testament: + +8:9. Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on +the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of +Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them +not, saith the Lord. + +8:10. For this is the testament which I will make to the house of +Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their +mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: +and they shall be my people. + +8:11. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man +his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the +least to the greatest of them. + +They shall not teach, etc. . .So great shall be light and grace of the +new testament, that it shall not be necessary to inculcate to the +faithful the belief and knowledge of the true God, for they shall all +know him. + +8:12. Because I will be merciful to their iniquities: and their sins I +will remember no more. + +8:13. Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which +decayeth and groweth old is near its end. + +A new. . .Supply 'covenant'. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 9 + + +The sacrifices of the law were far inferior to that of Christ. + +9:1. The former indeed had also justifications of divine service and a +sanctuary. + +9:2. For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the +candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is +called the Holy. + +9:3. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy +of Holies: + +9:4. Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about +on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and +the rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament. + +9:5. And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the +propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly. + +9:6. Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle, +the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of +sacrifices. + +9:7. But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not +without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's +ignorance: + +9:8. The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was +not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing. + +9:9. Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts +and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make +him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks, + +9:10. And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until +the time of correction. + +Of correction. . .Viz., when Christ should correct and settle all +things. + +9:11. But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, +by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, +not of this creation: + +9:12. Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, +entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. + +Eternal redemption. . .By that one sacrifice of his blood, once offered +on the cross, Christ our Lord paid and exhibited, once for all, the +general price and ransom of all mankind: which no other priest could +do. + +9:13. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an +heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing +of the flesh: + +9:14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost +offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead +works, to serve the living God? + +9:15. And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by +means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which +were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the +promise of eternal inheritance. + +9:16. For where there is a testament the death of the testator must of +necessity come in. + +9:17. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is +as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth. + +9:18. Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood. + +9:19. For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to +all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and +scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the +people. + +9:20. Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath +enjoined unto you. + +9:21. The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like +manner, he sprinkled with blood. + +9:22. And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with +blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission. + +9:23. It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things +should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with +better sacrifices than these. + +9:24. For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the +patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in +the presence of God for us. + +9:25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest +entereth into the Holies every year with the blood of others: + +Offer himself often. . .Christ shall never more offer himself in +sacrifice, in that violent, painful, and bloody manner, nor can there +be any occasion for it: since by that one sacrifice upon the cross, he +has furnished the full ransom, redemption, and remedy for all the sins +of the world. But this hinders not that he may offer himself daily in +the sacred mysteries in an unbloody manner, for the daily application +of that one sacrifice of redemption to our souls. + +9:26. For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of +the world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the +destruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself. + +9:27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the +judgment: + +9:28. So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The +second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto +salvation. + +To exhaust. . .That is, to empty, or draw out to the very bottom, by a +plentiful and perfect redemption. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 10 + + +Because of the insufficiency of the sacrifices of the law, Christ our +high priest shed his own blood for us, offering up once for all the +sacrifice of our redemption. He exhorts them to perseverance. + +10:1. For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the +very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer +continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect. + +10:2. For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the +worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer. + +They would have ceased. . .If they had been of themselves perfect to all +the intents of redemption and remission, as Christ's death is there +would have been no occasion of so often repeating them: as there is no +occasion for Christ's dying any more for our sins. + +10:3. But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year: + +10:4. For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin +should be taken away. + +10:5. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and +oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me. + +10:6. Holocausts for sin did not please thee. + +10:7. Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written +of me: that I should do thy will, O God. + +10:8. In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for +sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are +offered according to the law. + +10:9. Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away +the first, that he may establish that which followeth. + +10:10. In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body +of Jesus Christ once. + +10:11. And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often +offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. + +10:12. But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth +on the right hand of God, + +10:13. From henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his +footstool. + +10:14. For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are +sanctified. + +10:15. And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that +he said: + +10:16. And this is the testament which I will make unto them after +those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts and on +their minds will I write them: + +10:17. And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. + +10:18. Now, where there is a remission of these, there is no more an +oblation for sin. + +There is no more an oblation for sin. . .Where there is a full remission +of sins, as in baptism, there is no more occasion for a sin offering to +be made for such sins already remitted; and as for sins committed +afterwards, they can only be remitted in virtue of the one oblation of +Christ's death. + +10:19. Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into +the holies by the blood of Christ: + +10:20. A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the +veil, that is to say, his flesh: + +10:21. And a high priest over the house of God: + +10:22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith, having +our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with +clean water. + +10:23. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering +(for he is faithful that hath promised): + +10:24. And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to +good works: + +10:25. Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but +comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day +approaching. + +10:26. For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, +there is now left no sacrifice for sins: + +If we sin wilfully. . .He speaks of the sin of wilful apostasy from the +known truth; after which, as we can not be baptized again, we can not +expect to have that abundant remission of sins, which Christ purchased +by his death, applied to our souls in that ample manner as it is in +baptism: but we have rather all manner of reason to look for a dreadful +judgment; the more because apostates from the known truth, seldom or +never have the grace to return to it. + +10:27. But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of +a fire which shall consume the adversaries. + +10:28. A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under +two or three witnesses: + +10:29. How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who +hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of +the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an +affront to the Spirit of grace? + +10:30. For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I +will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people. + +10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. + +10:32. But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, +you endured a great fight of afflictions. + +10:33. And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were +made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that +were used in such sort. + +10:34. For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took +with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a +better and a lasting substance. + +10:35. Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward. + +10:36. For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, +you may receive the promise. + +10:37. For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come +will come and will not delay. + +10:38. But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he +shall not please my soul. + +10:39. But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but +of faith to the saving of the soul. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 11 + + +What faith is. Its wonderful fruits and efficacy demonstrated in the +fathers. + +11:1. Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the +evidence of things that appear not. + +11:2. For by this the ancients obtained a testimony. + +11:3. By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of +God: that from invisible things visible things might be made. + +11:4. By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, +by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony +to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh. + +11:5. By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and +he was not found because God had translated him. For before his +translation he had testimony that he pleased God. + +11:6. But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that +cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that +seek him. + +11:7. By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things +which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the +saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was +instituted heir of the justice which is by faith. + +11:8. By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place +which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not +knowing whither he went. + +He that is called Abraham. . .or, Abraham being called. + +11:9. By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange +country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of +the same promise. + +11:10. For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder +and maker is God. + +11:11. By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to +conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he +was faithful who had promised, + +11:12. For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as +dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand which is by +the sea shore innumerable. + +11:13. All these died according to faith, not having received the +promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing +that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. + +11:14. For they that say these things do signify that they seek a +country. + +11:15. And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they +came out, they had doubtless, time to return. + +11:16. But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly +country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he +hath prepared for them a city. + +11:17. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that +had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, + +11:18. (To whom it was said: In Isaac shalt thy seed be called:) + +11:19. Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. +Whereupon also he received him for a parable. + +For a parable. . .That is, as a figure of Christ, slain and coming to +life again. + +11:20. By faith also of things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. + +11:21. By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and +adored the top of his rod. + +Adored the top of his rod. . .The apostle here follows the ancient Greek +Bible of the seventy interpreters, (which translates in this manner, +Gen. 47. 31.,) and alleges this fact of Jacob, in paying a relative +honour and veneration to the top of the rod or sceptre of Joseph, as to +a figure of Christ's sceptre and kingdom, as an instance and argument +of his faith. But some translators, who are no friends to this relative +honour, have corrupted the text, by translating it, he worshipped, +leaning upon the top of his staff; as if this circumstance of leaning +upon his staff were any argument of Jacob's faith, or worthy the being +thus particularly taken notice of by the Holy Ghost. + +11:22. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the going +out of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his +bones. + +11:23. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his +parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the +king's edict. + +11:24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the +son of Pharao's daughter: + +11:25. Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to +have the pleasure of sin for a time: + +11:26. Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the +treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward. + +11:27. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: +for he endured, as seeing him that is invisible. + +11:28. By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: +that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them. + +11:29. By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which +the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up. + +11:30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them +seven days. + +11:31. By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, +receiving the spies with peace. + +11:32. And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of +Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets: + +11:33. Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained +promises, stopped the mouths of lions, + +11:34. Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, +recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to +flight the armies of foreigners. + +11:35. Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were +racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better +resurrection. + +11:36. And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of +bands and prisons. + +11:37. They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they +were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in +goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: + +11:38. Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in +mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth. + +11:39. And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith, +received not the promise: + +11:40. God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be +perfected without us. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 12 + + +Exhortation to constancy under their crosses. The danger of abusing the +graces of the New Testament. + +12:1. And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over +our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us +run by patience to the fight proposed to us: + +12:2. Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having +joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now +sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. + +12:3. For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from +sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your +minds. + +12:4. For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. + +12:5. And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as +unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: +neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. + +12:6. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every +son whom he receiveth. + +12:7. Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his +sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? + +12:8. But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made +partakers, then are you bastards and not sons. + +12:9. Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and +we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits +and live? + +12:10. And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, +instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his +sanctification. + +12:11. Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring +with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are +exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice. + +12:12. Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble +knees: + +12:13. And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, +may go out of the way; but rather be healed. + +12:14. Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man +shall see God. + +12:15. Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: +lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be +defiled: + +12:16. Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for +one mess sold his first birthright. + +12:17. For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the +benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, +although with tears he had sought it. + +He found, etc. . .That is, he found no way to bring his father to +repent, or change his mind, with relation to his having given the +blessing to his younger brother Jacob. + +12:18. For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a +burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm, + +12:19. And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which they +that had excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken to them. + +12:20. For they did not endure that which was said: and if so much as a +beast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned. + +12:21. And so terrible was that which was seen, Moses said: I am +frighted, and tremble. + +12:22. But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living +God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of +angels, + +12:23. And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the +heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just +made perfect, + +12:24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the +sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel. + +12:25. See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped +not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that +turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven. + +12:26. Whose voice then moved the earth; but now he promiseth, saying: +Yet once more: and I will move, not only the earth, but heaven also. + +12:27. And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the +translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may +remain which are immoveable. + +12:28. Therefore, receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace: +whereby let us serve, pleasing God, with fear and reverence. + +12:29. For our God is a consuming fire. + + + +Hebrews Chapter 13 + + +Divers admonitions and exhortations. + +13:1. Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you. + +13:2. And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware +of it, have entertained angels. + +13:3. Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: +and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body. + +13:4. Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For +fornicators and adulterers God will judge. + +Or, Let marriage be honourable in all. . .That is, in all things +belonging to the marriage state. This is a warning to married people, +not to abuse the sanctity of their state, by any liberties or +irregularities contrary thereunto. Now it does not follow from this +text that all persons are obliged to marry, even if the word omnibus +were rendered, in all persons, instead of in all things: for if it was +a precept, St. Paul himself would have transgressed it, as he never +married. Moreover, those who have already made a vow to God to lead a +single life, should they attempt to marry, they would incur their own +damnation. 1 Tim. 5. 12. + +13:5. Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such +things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither +will I forsake thee. + +13:6. So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not +fear what man shall do to me. + +13:7. Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: +whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, + +13:8. Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever. + +13:9. Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is +best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which +have not profited those that walk in them. + +13:10. We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the +tabernacle. + +13:11. For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the +holies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp. + +13:12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his +own blood, suffered without the gate. + +13:13. Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his +reproach. + +Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his +reproach. . .That is, bearing his cross. It is an exhortation to them to +be willing to suffer with Christ, reproaches, persecutions, and even +death, if they desire to partake of the benefit of his suffering for +man's redemption. + +13:14. For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to +come. + +13:15. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to +God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name. + +13:16. And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such +sacrifices God's favour is obtained. + +13:17. Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as +being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with +joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you. + +13:18. Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being +willing to behave ourselves well in all things. + +13:19. And I beseech you the more to do this, that I may be restored to +you the sooner. + +13:20. And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the +great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the +everlasting testament, + +13:21. Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you +that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom +is glory for ever and ever. Amen. + +13:22. And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of +consolation. For I have written to you in a few words. + +13:23. Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom +(if he come shortly) I will see you. + +13:24. Salute all your prelates and all the saints. The brethren from +Italy salute you. + +13:25. Grace be with you all. Amen. + + + + +THE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE + + + +This Epistle is called Catholic or Universal, as formerly were also the +two Epistles of St. Peter, the first of St. John and that of St. Jude, +because they were not written to any peculiar people or particular +person, but to the faithful in general. It was written by the apostle +St. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our +Lord, being his kinsman (for cousins german with the Hebrews were +called brothers). He was the first Bishop of Jerusalem. In this Epistle +are set forth many precepts appertaining to faith and morals; +particularly, that faith without good works will not save a man and +that true wisdom is given only from above. In the fifth chapter he +publishes the sacrament of anointing the sick. It was written a short +time before his martyrdom, about twenty-eight years after our Lord's +Ascension. + + + +James Chapter 1 + + +The benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God is the author of +all good, but not of evil. We must be slow to anger and not hearers +only, but doers of the word. Of bridling the tongue and of pure +religion. + +1:1. James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the +twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. + +1:2. My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers +temptations: + +Into divers temptations. . .The word temptation, in this epistle, is +sometimes taken for trials by afflictions or persecutions, as in this +place: at other times, it is to be understood, tempting, enticing, or +drawing others into sin. + +1:3. Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience + +1:4. And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and +entire, failing in nothing. + +1:5. But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to +all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him. + +1:6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth +is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the +wind. + +1:7. Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing +of the Lord. + +1:8. A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways. + +1:9. But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation: + +1:10. And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the +grass shall he pass away. + +1:11. For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and +the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof +perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. + +1:12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath +been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised +to them that love him. + +1:13. Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. +For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man. + +1:14. But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn +away and allured. + +1:15. Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. +But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death. + +1:16. Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren. + +1:17. Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down +from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of +alteration. + +1:18. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, +that we might be some beginning of his creature. + +Some beginning. . .That is, a kind of first fruits of his creatures. + +1:19. You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to +hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger. + +1:20. For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God. + +1:21. Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of +naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to +save your souls. + +1:22. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your +own selves. + +1:23. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be +compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. + +1:24. For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what +manner of man he was. + +1:25. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath +continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the +work: this man shall be blessed in his deed. + +1:26. And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his +tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain. + +1:27. Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: +to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep +one's self unspotted from this world. + + + +James Chapter 2 + + +Against respect of persons. The danger of transgressing one point of +the law. Faith is dead without works. + +2:1. My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, +with respect of persons. + +With respect of persons. . .The meaning is, that in matters relating to +faith, the administering of the sacraments, and other spiritual +functions in God's church, there should be no respect of persons; but +that the souls of the poor should be as much regarded as those of the +rich. See Deut. 1.17. + +2:2. For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden +ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean +attire: + +2:3. And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel +and shall say to him: Sit thou here well: but say to the poor man: +Stand thou there, or: Sit under my footstool: + +2:4. Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of +unjust thoughts? + +2:5. Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this +world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised +to them that love him? + +2:6. But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you +by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats? + +2:7. Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you? + +2:8. If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: +Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well. + +2:9. But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved +by the law as transgressors. + +2:10. And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, +is become guilty of all. + +Guilty of all;. . .That is, he becomes a transgressor of the law in such +a manner, that the observing of all other points will not avail him to +salvation; for he despises the lawgiver, and breaks through the great +and general commandment of charity, even by one mortal sin. For all the +precepts of the law are to be considered as one total and entire law, +and as it were a chain of precepts, where, by breaking one link of this +chain, the whole chain is broken, or the integrity of the law +consisting of a collection of precepts. A sinner, therefore, by a +grievous offence against any one precept, incurs eternal punishment; +yet the punishment in hell shall be greater for those who have been +greater sinners, as a greater reward shall be for those in heaven who +have lived with greater sanctity and perfection. + +2:11. For he that said: Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou +shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, +thou art become a transgressor of the law. + +2:12. So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of +liberty. + +2:13. For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And +mercy exalteth itself above judgment. + +2:14. What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, +but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? + +2:15. And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: + +2:16. And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; +yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what +shall it profit? + +2:17. So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. + +2:18. But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me +thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. + +2:19. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils +also believe and tremble. + +2:20. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? + +2:21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac +his son upon the altar? + +2:22. Seest thou that faith did cooperate with his works and by works +faith was made perfect? + +2:23. And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, +and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of +God. + +2:24. Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith +only? + +2:25. And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified +by works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way? + +2:26. For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith +without works is dead. + + + +James Chapter 3 + + +Of the evils of the tongue. Of the difference between the earthly and +heavenly wisdom. + +3:1. Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the +greater judgment. + +3:2. For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, +the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about +the whole body. + +3:3. For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey +us: and we turn about their whole body. + +3:4. Behold also ships, whereas they are great and are driven by strong +winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the +force of the governor willeth. + +3:5. Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great +things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. + +3:6. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is +placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth +the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell. + +3:7. For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the +rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man. + +3:8. But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly +poison. + +3:9. By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are +made after the likeness of God. + +3:10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My +brethren, these things ought not so to be. + +3:11. Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and +bitter water? + +3:12. Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So +neither can the salt water yield sweet. + +3:13. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him +shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. + +3:14. But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your +hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. + +3:15. For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, +sensual, devilish. + +3:16. For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and +every evil work. + +3:17. But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then +peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full +of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. + +3:18. And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make +peace. + + + +James Chapter 4 + + +The evils that flow from yielding to concupiscence and being friends to +this world. Admonitions against pride, detraction and the like. + +4:1. From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not +hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? + +4:2. You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You +contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not. + +4:3. You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may +consume it on your concupiscences. + +4:4. Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the +enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world +becometh an enemy of God. + +4:5. Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the +spirit covet which dwelleth in you? + +4:6. But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the +proud and giveth grace to the humble. + +4:7. Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly +from you. + +4:8. Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your +hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. + +4:9. Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into +mourning and your joy into sorrow. + +4:10. Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you. + +4:11. Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his +brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth +the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but +a judge. + +4:12. There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to +deliver. + +4:13. But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that +say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will +spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. + +4:14. Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. + +4:15. For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a +little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: +If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that. + +4:16. But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is +wicked. + +4:17. To him therefore who knoweth to do good and doth it not, to him +it is sin. + + + +James Chapter 5 + + +A woe to the rich that oppress the poor. Exhortations to patience and +to avoid swearing. Of the anointing the sick, confession of sins and +fervour in prayer. + +5:1. Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which +shall come upon you. + +5:2. Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. + +5:3. Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be +for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You +have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. + +5:4. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, +which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them +hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. + +5:5. You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished +your hearts, in the day of slaughter. + +5:6. You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted +you not. + +5:7. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. +Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: +patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. + +5:8. Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the +coming of the Lord is at hand. + +5:9. Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be +judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door. + +5:10. Take, my brethren, for example of suffering evil, of labour and +patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. + +5:11. Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard +of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the +Lord is merciful and compassionate. + +5:12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, +nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, +Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment. + +5:13. Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him +sing. + +5:14. Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the +church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name +of the Lord. + +Let him bring in, etc. . .See here a plain warrant of scripture for the +sacrament of extreme unction, that any controversy against its +institution would be against the express words of the sacred text in +the plainest terms. + +5:15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord +shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him. + +5:16. Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for +another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man +availeth much. + +Confess your sins one to another. . .That is, to the priests of the +church, whom (ver.14) he had ordered to be called for, and brought in +to the sick; moreover, to confess to persons who had no power to +forgive sins, would be useless. Hence the precept here means, that we +must confess to men whom God hath appointed, and who, by their +ordination and jurisdiction, have received the power of remitting sins +in his name. + +5:17. Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed +that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three +years and six months. + +5:18. And he prayed again. And the heaven gave rain: and the earth +brought forth her fruit. + +5:19. My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert +him: + +5:20. He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from +the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a +multitude of sins. + + + + +THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE + + + +The first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine +concerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to all +persons of what state or condition soever. The Apostle commands +submission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a +virtuous life in imitation, of Christ. This Epistle is written with +such apostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with +which its writer, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his +Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively +he calls Babylon, about fifteen years after our Lord's Ascension. + + + +1 Peter Chapter 1 + + +He gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the true +faith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by many +tribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holiness +of God and our redemption by the blood of Christ. + +1:1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed +through Pontus, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect, + +1:2. According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the +sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the +blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. + +1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who +according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by +the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: + +1:4. Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot +fade, reserved in heaven for you, + +1:5. Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready +to be revealed in the last time. + +1:6. Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little +time made sorrowful in divers temptations: + +1:7. That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which +is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at +the appearing of Jesus Christ. + +1:8. Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see +him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable +and glorified; + +1:9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. + +1:10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently +searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you. + +1:11. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in +them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ +and the glories that should follow. + +1:12. To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they +ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have +preached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, +on whom the angels desire to look. + +1:13. Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, +trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of +Jesus Christ. + +1:14. As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former +desires of your ignorance, + +1:15. But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you +also in all manner of conversation holy: + +1:16. Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy. + +1:17. And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, +judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time +of your sojourning here. + +1:18. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as +gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your +fathers: + +1:19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and +undefiled + +1:20. Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but +manifested in the last times for you: + +1:21. Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the +dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in +God. + +1:22. Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a +brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly: + +1:23. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by +the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. + +1:24. For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower +of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away. + +1:25. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word +which by the gospel hath been preached unto you. + + + +1 Peter Chapter 2 + + +We are to lay aside all guile and go to Christ the living stone, and, +as being now his people, walk worthily of him, with submission to +superiors and patience under sufferings. + +2:1. Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations +and envies and all detractions, + +2:2. As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that +thereby you may grow unto salvation: + +2:3. If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. + +2:4. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but +chosen and made honourable by God: + +2:5. Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy +priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by +Jesus Christ. + +2:6. Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a +chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him +shall not be confounded. + +2:7. To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that +believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made +the head of the corner: + +2:8. And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who +stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set. + +2:9. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy +nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath +called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: + +2:10. Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of +God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy. + +2:11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to +refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul, + +2:12. Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas +they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which +they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation. + +2:13. Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: +whether it be to the king as excelling, + +2:14. Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers +and for the praise of the good. + +2:15. For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to +silence the ignorance of foolish men: + +2:16. As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the +servants of God. + +2:17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. + +2:18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to +the good and gentle but also to the froward. + +2:19. For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man +endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully. + +2:20. For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for +it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is +thankworthy before God. + +2:21. For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for +us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. + +2:22. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. + +2:23. Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he +threatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly. + +2:24. Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that +we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you +were healed. + +2:25. For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to +the shepherd and bishop of your souls. + + + +1 Peter Chapter 3 + + +How wives are to behave to their husbands. What ornaments they are to +seek. Exhortations to divers Virtues. + +3:1. In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, +if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the +conversation of the wives, + +3:2. Considering your chaste conversation with fear. + +3:3. Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or +the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: + +3:4. But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a +quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God. + +3:5. For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted +in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: + +3:6. As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, +doing well and not fearing any disturbance. + +3:7. Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, +giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the +co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered. + +3:8. And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of +another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: + +3:9. Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but +contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may +inherit a blessing. + +3:10. For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his +tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. + +3:11. Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace +and pursue it: + +3:12. Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto +their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil +things. + +3:13. And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good? + +3:14. But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are +ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled. + +3:15. But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always +to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in +you. + +3:16. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas +they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your +good conversation in Christ. + +3:17. For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to +suffer than doing ill. + +3:18. Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the +unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the +flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, + +3:19. In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in +prison: + +Spirits that were in prison. . .See here a proof of a third place, or +middle state of souls: for these spirits in prison, to whom Christ went +to preach, after his death, were not in heaven; nor yet in the hell of +the damned: because heaven is no prison: and Christ did not go to +preach to the damned. + +3:20. Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the +patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: +wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. + +3:21. Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: +not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of +a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. + +Whereunto baptism, etc. . .Baptism is said to be of the like form with +the water by which Noe was saved, because the one was a figure of the +other. Not the putting away, etc. . .As much as to say, that baptism +has not its efficacy, in order to salvation, from its washing away any +bodily filth or dirt; but from its purging the conscience from sin, +when accompanied with suitable dispositions in the party, to answer the +interrogations made at that time, with relation to faith, the +renouncing of Satan with all his works; and the obedience to God's +commandments. + +3:22. Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we +might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the +angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him. + + + +1 Peter Chapter 4 + + +Exhortations to cease from sin, to mutual charity, to do all for the +glory of God, to be willing to suffer for Christ. + +4:1. Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed +with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath +ceased from sins: + +4:2. That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after +the desires of men but according to the will of God. + +4:3. For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the +Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of +wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. + +4:4. Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the +same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you. + +4:5. Who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living +and the dead. + +4:6. For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: That +they might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh: but may +live according to God, in the Spirit. + +4:7. But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in +prayers. + +4:8. But before all things have a constant mutual charity among +yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins. + +4:9. Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring, + +4:10. As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to +another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. + +4:11. If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any +minister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that +in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is +glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen. + +4:12. Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to +try you: as if some new thing happened to you. + +4:13. But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, +when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding +joy. + +4:14. If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be +blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and +that which is his Spirit resteth upon you. + +4:15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer +or coveter of other men's things. + +4:16. But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him +glorify God in that name. + +4:17. For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. +And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not +the gospel of God? + +4:18. And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the +ungodly and the sinner appear? + +Scarcely. . .That is, not without much labour and difficulty; and +because of the dangers which constantly surround, the temptations of +the world, of the devil, and of our own corrupt nature. + +4:19. Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God +commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator. + + + +1 Peter Chapter 5 + + +He exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and +recommends to all humility and watchfulness. + +5:1. The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech who am myself +also an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as also a +partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come: + +5:2. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not +by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's +sake but voluntarily: + +5:3. Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of +the flock from the heart. + +5:4. And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a +never fading crown of glory. + +5:5. In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do +you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, +but to the humble he giveth grace. + +5:6. Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may +exalt you in the time of visitation: + +5:7. Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you. + +5:8. Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring +lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. + +5:9. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction +befalls, your brethren who are in the world. + +5:10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal +glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself +perfect you and confirm you and establish you. + +5:11. To him be glory and empire, for ever and ever. Amen. + +5:12. By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have +written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace +of God, wherein you stand. + +5:13. The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, +saluteth you. And so doth my son, Mark. + +5:14. Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you who are +in Christ Jesus. Amen. + + + + +THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE + + + +In this Epistle St. Peter says (chap. 3.), Behold this second Epistle I +write to you: and before (chap. 1. 14,) Being assured that the laying +away of this my tabernacle is at hand. This shews, that it was written a +very short time before his martyrdom, which was about thirty-five years +after our Lord's Ascension. In this Epistle he admonishes the faithful +to be mindful of the great gifts they received from God and to join all +other virtues with their faith. He warns them against false teachers, +by describing their practices and foretelling their punishments. He +describes the dissolution of this world by fire and the day of +judgment. + + + +2 Peter Chapter 1 + + +He exhorts them to join all other virtues with their faith, in order to +secure their salvation. + +1:1. Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that +have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour +Jesus Christ. + +1:2. Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and +of Christ Jesus our Lord. + +1:3. As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and +godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us +by his own proper glory and virtue. + +1:4. By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by +these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the +corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world. + +1:5. And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And +in virtue, knowledge: + +1:6. And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in +patience, godliness: + +1:7. And in godliness, love of brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood, +charity. + +1:8. For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to +be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus +Christ. + +1:9. For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, +having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. + +1:10. Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may +make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall +not sin at any time. + +1:11. For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the +ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. + +1:12. For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of +these things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the +present truth. + +1:13. But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir +you up by putting you in remembrance. + +1:14. Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at +hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me. + +1:15. And I will endeavour that you frequently have after my decease +whereby you may keep a memory of these things. + +1:16. For we have not by following artificial fables made known to you +the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ: but we were +eyewitnesses of his greatness. + +1:17. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, this voice +coming down to him from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in +whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. + +1:18. And this voice, we heard brought from heaven, when we were with +him in the holy mount. + +1:19. And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well +to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day +dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. + +1:20. Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made +by private interpretation. + +No prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. . .This +shows plainly that the scriptures are not to be expounded by any one's +private judgment or private spirit, because every part of the holy +scriptures were written by men inspired by the Holy Ghost, and declared +as such by the Church; therefore they are not to be interpreted but by +the Spirit of God, which he hath left, and promised to remain with his +Church to guide her in all truth to the end of the world. Some may tell +us, that many of our divines interpret the scriptures: they may do so, +but they do it always with a submission to the judgment of the Church, +and not otherwise. + +1:21. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the +holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost. + + + +2 Peter Chapter 2 + + +He warns them against false teachers and foretells their punishment. + +2:1. But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there +shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition +and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift +destruction. + +Seeds of perdition. . .That is, heresies destructive of salvation. + +2:2. And many shall follow their riotousness, through whom the way of +truth shall be evil spoken of. + +2:3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make +merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: +and their perdition slumbereth not. + +2:4. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, +drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be +reserved unto judgment: + +2:5. And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth +person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world +of the ungodly. + +2:6. And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites +into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to +those that should after act wickedly, + +2:7. And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd +conversation of the wicked: + +2:8. For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from +day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works. + +2:9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to +reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented: + +2:10. And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of +uncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear +not to bring in sects, blaspheming. + +2:11. Whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, bring not +against themselves a railing judgment. + +Bring not a railing judgment, etc. . .That is, they use no railing, nor +cursing sentence; not even in their conflicts with the evil angels. See +St. Jude, ver. 9. + +2:12. But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the +snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, +shall perish in their corruption: + +2:13. Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure +the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, +rioting in their feasts with you: + +The delights of a day: that is, the short delights of this world, in +which they place all their happiness. + +2:14. Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: +alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with +covetousness: children of malediction. + +2:15. Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the +way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity, + +2:16. But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, +which, speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet. + +2:17. These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with +whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved. + +2:18. For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires +of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as +converse in error: + +2:19. Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of +corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the +slave. + +2:20. For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the +knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled +in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than +the former. + +2:21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of +justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy +commandment which was delivered to them. + +2:22. For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is +returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in +the mire. + + + +2 Peter Chapter 3 + + +Against scoffers denying the second coming of Christ. He declares the +sudden dissolution of this world and exhorts to holiness of life. + +3:1. Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in +which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: + +3:2. That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before +from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord +and Saviour. + +3:3. Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come +deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts, + +3:4. Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time +that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the +beginning of the creation. + +3:5. For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were +before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the +word of God: + +3:6. Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, +perished. + +3:7. But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are +kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and +perdition of the ungodly men. + +3:8. But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day +with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. + +3:9. The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth +patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that +all should return to penance, + +3:10. But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the +heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be +melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be +burnt up. + +3:11. Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what +manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness? + +3:12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, +by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements +shall melt with the burning heat? + +3:13. But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his +promises, in which justice dwelleth. + +3:14. Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent +that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. + +3:15. And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our +most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written +to you: + +3:16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in +which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and +unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own +destruction. + +3:17. You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, +lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own +steadfastness. + +3:18. But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour +Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity, +Amen. + + + + +THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE + + + +The same vein of divine love and charity towards our neighbour, which +runs throughout the Gospel written by the beloved disciple and +Evangelist, St. John, is found also in his Epistles. He confirms the +two principal mysteries of faith: The mystery of the Trinity and the +mystery of the incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God. The +sublimity and excellence of the evangelical doctrine he declares: And +this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also +his brother (chap. 4,21). And again: For this is the charity of God, +that we keep his commandments, and: His commandments are not heavy +(chap. 5,3). He shews how to distinguish the children of God from those +of the devil: marks out those who should be called Antichrists: +describes the turpitude and gravity of sin. Finally, he shews how the +sinner may hope for pardon. It was written, according to Baronius' +account, sixty-six years after our Lord's Ascension. + + + +1 John Chapter 1 + + +He declares what he has seen and heard of Christ who is the life +eternal, to the end that we may have fellowship with God and all good +through him. Yet so if we confess our sins. + +1:1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we +have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have +handled, of the word of life. + +1:2. For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness +and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and +hath appeared to us. + +1:3. That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you: that +you also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship may be with the +Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. + +1:4. And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice and your +joy may be full. + +1:5. And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and +declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness. + +1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, +we lie and do not the truth. + +1:7. But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have +fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son +cleanseth us from all sin. + +1:8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth +is not in us. + +1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our +sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity. + +1:10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his +word is not in us. + + + +1 John Chapter 2 + + +Christ is our advocate. We must keep his commandments and love one +another. We must not love the world nor give ear to new teachers, but +abide by the spirit of God in the church. + +2:1. My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not +sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus +Christ the just. + +2:2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, +but also for those of the whole world. + +2:3. And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his +commandments. + +We have known him, if we keep his commandments. . .He speaks of that +practical knowledge by love and affection, which can only be proved by +our keeping his commandments; and without which we can not be said to +know God as we should do. + +2:4. He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments +is a liar: and the truth is not in him. + +2:5. But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of +God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him. + +2:6. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as +he walked. + +2:7. Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old +commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is +the word which you have heard. + +2:8. Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both +in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light +now shineth. + +A new commandment. . .Viz., the commandment of love, which was first +given in the old law; but was renewed and extended by Christ. See John +13.34. + +2:9. He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in +darkness even until now. + +2:10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no +scandal in him. + +2:11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in +darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath +blinded his eyes. + +2:12. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven +you for his name's sake. + +2:13. I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from +the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome +the wicked one. + +2:14. I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I +write unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God +abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. + +2:15. Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any +man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. + +2:16. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh +and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not +of the Father but is of the world. + +2:17. And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he +that doth the will of God abideth for ever. + +2:18. Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that +Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby +we know that it is the last hour. + +It is the last hour. . .That is, it is the last age of the world. Many +Antichrists;. . .that is, many heretics, enemies of Christ and his +church, and forerunners of the great Antichrist. + +2:19. They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had +been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they +may be manifest, that they are not all of us. + +They were not of us. . .That is, they were not solid, steadfast, genuine +Christians: otherwise they would have remained in the church. + +2:20. But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things. + +The unction from the Holy One. . .That is, grace and wisdom from the +Holy Ghost. Know all things. . .The true children of God's church, +remaining in unity, under the guidance of their lawful pastors, partake +of the grace of the Holy Ghost, promised to the church and her pastors; +and have in the church all necessary knowledge and instruction; so as +to have no need to seek it elsewhere, since it can be only found in +that society of which they are members. + +2:21. I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but +as to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth. + +2:22. Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This +is Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son. + +2:23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that +confesseth the Son hath the Father also. + +2:24. As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning +abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the +beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father. + +2:25. And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life +everlasting. + +2:26. These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce +you. + +2:27. And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him +abide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his +unction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as +it hath taught you, abide in him. + +You have no need, etc. . .You want not to be taught by any of these men, +who, under pretence of imparting more knowledge to you, seek to seduce +you (ver. 26), since you are sufficiently taught already, and have all +knowledge and grace in the church, with the unction of the Holy Ghost; +which these new teachers have no share in. + +2:28. And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear +we may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming. + +2:29. If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who +doth justice is born of him. + + + +1 John Chapter 3 + + +Of the love of God to us. How we may distinguish the children of God +and those of the devil. Of loving one another and of purity of +conscience. + +3:1. Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, +that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the +world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. + +3:2. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet +appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall +be like to him: because we shall see him as he is. + +3:3. And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as +he also is holy. + +3:4. Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is +iniquity. + +Iniquity. . .transgression of the law. + +3:5. And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him +there is no sin. + +3:6. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath +not seen him nor known him. + +Sinneth not. . .viz., mortally. See chap. 1.8. + +3:7. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is +just, even as he is just. + +3:8. He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from +the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might +destroy the works of the devil. + +3:9. Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth +in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God. + +Committeth not sin. . .That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this +seed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God. +But then he may fall from this happy state, by the abuse of his free +will, as appears from Rom. 11.20-22; Cor. 9.27; and 10.12; Phil. 2.12; +Apoc. 3.11. + +3:10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the +devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his +brother. + +3:11. For this is the declaration which you have heard from the +beginning, that you should love one another. + +3:12. Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. +And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and +his brother's just. + +3:13. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. + +3:14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love +the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. + +3:15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no +murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. + +3:16. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid +down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the +brethren. + +3:17. He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his +brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the +charity of God abide in him? + +3:18. My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in +deed and in truth. + +3:19. In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall +persuade our hearts. + +3:20. For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and +knoweth all things. + +3:21. Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have +confidence towards God. + +3:22. And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we +keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his +sight. + +3:23. And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name +of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given +commandment unto us. + +3:24. And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in +him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he +hath given us. + + + +1 John Chapter 4 + + +What spirits are of God, and what are not. We must love one another, +because God has loved us. + +4:1. Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if +they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the +world. + +Try the spirits. . .Viz., by examining whether their teaching be +agreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the +church. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth God, heareth us [the +pastors of the church]. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the +spirit of error. + +4:2. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth +that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: + +Every spirit which confesseth, etc. . .Not that the confession of this +point of faith alone, is, at all times, and in all cases, sufficient; +but that with relation to that time, and for that part of the Christian +doctrine, which was then particularly to be confessed, taught, and +maintained against the heretics of those days, this was the most proper +token, by which the true teachers might be distinguished form the +false. + +4:3. And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is +Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now +already in the world. + +That dissolveth Jesus. . .Viz., either by denying his humanity, or his +divinity. He is now already in the world. . .Not in his person, but in +his spirit, and in his precursors. + +4:4. You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because +greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. + +4:5. They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the +world heareth them. + +4:6. We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of +God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit +of error. + +4:7. Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. +And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. + +4:8. He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity. + +4:9. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God +hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by +him. + +4:10. In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because +he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our +sins. + +4:11. My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one +another. + +4:12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God +abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us. + +4:13. In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he +hath given us of his spirit. + +4:14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son +to be the Saviour of the world. + +4:15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth +in him, and he in God. + +4:16. And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to +us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and +God in him. + +4:17. In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have +confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in +this world. + +4:18. Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, +because fear hath sin. And he that feareth is not perfected in charity. + +Fear is not in charity, etc. . .Perfect charity, or love, banisheth +human fear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear, +which makes men mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that kind of +servile fear, which makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the +offence offered to God. But it no way excludes the wholesome fear of +God's judgments, so often recomended in holy writ; nor that fear and +trembling, with which we are told to work out our salvation. Phil. +2.12. + +4:19. Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us. + +4:20. If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. +For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God +whom he seeth not? + +4:21. And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God +love also his brother. + + + +1 John Chapter 5 + + +Of them that are born of God, and of true charity. Faith overcomes the +world. Three that bear witness to Christ. Of faith in his name and of +sin that is and is not to death. + +5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And +every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of +him. + +Is born of God. . .That is, is justified, and become a child of God by +baptism: which is also to be understood; provided the belief of this +fundamental article of the Christian faith be accompanied with all the +other conditions, which, by the word of God, and his appointment, are +also required to justification; such as a general belief of all that +God has revealed and promised: hope, love, repentance, and a sincere +disposition to keep God's holy law and commandments. + +5:2. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God +and keep his commandments. + +5:3. For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And +his commandments are not heavy. + +5:4. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is +the victory which overcameth the world: Our faith. + +Our faith. . .Not a bare, speculative, or dead faith; but a faith that +worketh by charity. Gal. 5.6 + +5:5. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that +Jesus is the Son of God? + +5:6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by +water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which +testifieth that Christ is the truth. + +Came by water and blood. . .Not only to wash away our sins by the water +of baptism, but by his own blood. + +5:7. And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the +Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. + +5:8. And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and +the water and the blood. And these three are one. + +The spirit, and the water, and the blood. . .As the Father, the Word, +and the Holy Ghost, all bear witness to Christ's divinity; so the +spirit, which he yielded up, crying out with a loud voice upon the +cross; and the water and blood that issued from his side, bear witness +to his humanity, and are one; that is, all agree in one testimony. + +5:9. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is +greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he +hath testified of his Son. + +5:10. He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in +himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he +believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son. + +He that believeth not the Son, etc. . .By refusing to believe the +testimonies given by the three divine persons, that Jesus was the +Messias, and the true Son of God, by whom eternal life is obtained and +promised to all that comply with his doctrine. In him we have also this +lively confidence, that we shall obtain whatever we ask, according to +his will, when we ask what is for our good, with perseverance, and in +the manner we ought. And this we know, and have experience of, by +having obtained the petitions that we have made. + +5:11. And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. +And this life is in his Son. + +5:12. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not +life. + +5:13. These things I write to you that you may know that you have +eternal life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God. + +5:14. And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, +whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. + +5:15. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we +have the petitions which we request of him. + +5:16. He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, +let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. +There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask. + +A sin which is not to death, etc. . .It is hard to determine what St. +John here calls a sin which is not to death, and a sin which is unto +death. The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are +called venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his +brother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given +him: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been +guilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin. And when he speaks of a +sin that is unto death, and adds these words, for that I say not that +any man ask, it cannot be supposed that St. John would say this of +every mortal sin, but only of some heinous sins, which are very seldom +remitted, because such sinners very seldom repent. By a sin therefore +which is unto death, interpreters commonly understand a wilfull +apostasy from the faith, and from the known truth, when a sinner, +hardened by his own ingratitude, becomes deaf to all admonitions, will +do nothing for himself, but runs on to a final impenitence. Nor yet +does St. John say, that such a sin is never remitted, or cannot be +remitted, but only has these words, for that I say not that any man ask +the remission : that is, though we must pray for all sinners +whatsoever, yet men can not pray for such sinners with such a +confidence of obtaining always their petitions, as St. John said +before, ver. 14. Whatever exposition we follow on this verse, our faith +teacheth us from the holy scriptures, that God desires not the death of +any sinner, but that he be converted and live, Ezech. 33.11. Though +men's sins be as red as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow, +Isa. 3.18. It is the will of God that every one come to the knowledge +of the truth, and be saved. There is no sin so great but which God is +willing to forgive, and has left a power in his church to remit the +most enormous sins: so that no sinner need despair of pardon, nor will +any sinner perish, but by his own fault. A sin unto death. . .Some +understand this of final impenitence, or of dying in mortal sin; which +is the only sin that never can be remitted. But, it is probable, he may +also comprise under this name, the sin of apostasy from the faith, and +some other such heinous sins as are seldom and hardly remitted: and +therefore he gives little encouragement, to such as pray for these +sinners, to expect what they ask. + +5:17. All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death. + +5:18. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the +generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not. + +5:19. We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in +wickedness. + +And the whole world is seated in wickedness. . .That is, a great part of +the world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one, meaning the +devil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, that is, of +all the wicked. John 12.31. + +5:20. And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us +understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. +This is the true God and life eternal. + +And may be in his true Son. He is, or this is the true God, and life +eternal. . .Which words are a clear proof of Christ's divinity, and as +such made use of by the ancient fathers. + +5:21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. + +Keep yourselves from idols. . .An admonition to the newly converted +Christians, lest conversing with heathens and idolaters, they might +fall back into the sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto death +here mentioned by St. John. + + + + +THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE + + + +The Apostle commends Electa and her family for their steadfastness in +the true faith and exhorts them to persevere, lest they lose the reward +of their labours. He exhorts them to love one another. But with +heretics to have no society, even not to salute them. Although this +Epistle is written to a particular person, yet its instructions may +serve as a lesson to others, especially to those who, from their +connections, situation, or condition in life, are in danger of +perversion. + + + +2 John Chapter 1 + + +He recommends walking in truth, loving one another and to beware of +false teachers. + +1:1. The Ancient to the lady Elect and her children, whom I love in the +truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth, + +The ancient. . .That is, the ancient bishop St. John, being the only one +of the twelve apostles then living. To the lady Elect. . .Some +conjecture that Electa might be the name of a family, or of a +particular church; but the general opinion is, that it is the proper +name of a lady, so eminent for her piety and great charity, as to merit +this Epistle from St. John. + +1:2. For the sake of the truth which dwelleth in us and shall be with +us for ever. + +1:3. Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father and from +Christ Jesus the Son of the Father: in truth and charity. + +1:4. I was exceeding glad that I found of thy children walking in +truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. + +1:5. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to +thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one +another. + +1:6. And this is charity: That we walk according to his commandments. +For this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, +you should walk in the same: + +1:7. For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that +Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a seducer and an antichrist. + +1:8. Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have +wrought: but that you may receive a full reward. + +1:9. Whosoever revolteth and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ +hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both +the Father and the Son. + +1:10. If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him +not into the house nor say to him: God speed you. + +Nor say to him, God speed you. . .This admonition is in general, to +forewarn the faithful of the dangers which may arise from a familiarity +with those who have prevaricated and gone from the true faith, and with +such as teach false doctrine. But this is not forbidding a charity for +all men, by which we ought to wish and pray for the eternal salvation +of every one, even of our enemies. + +1:11. For he that saith unto him: God speed you, communicateth with his +wicked works. + +1:12. Having more things to write unto you, I would not by paper and +ink: for I hope that I shall be with you and speak face to face, that +your joy may be full. + +1:13. The children of thy sister Elect salute thee. + + + + +THE THIRD EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE + + + +St. John praises Gaius for his walking in truth and for his charity, +complains of the bad conduct of Diotrephes and gives a good testimony +to Demetrius. + + + +3 John Chapter 1 + + +1:1. The Ancient, to the dearly beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. + +1:2. Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make it my prayer that +thou mayest proceed prosperously and fare well, as thy soul doth +prosperously. + +1:3. I was exceedingly glad when the brethren came and gave testimony +to the truth in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. + +1:4. I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk +in truth. + +No greater grace. . .that is nothing that gives me greater joy and +satisfaction. + +1:5. Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatever thou dost for the +brethren: and that for strangers, + +1:6. Who have given testimony to thy charity in the sight of the +church. Whom thou shalt do well to bring forward on their way in a +manner worthy of God: + +1:7. Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the +Gentiles. + +Taking nothing of the Gentiles. . .These ministers of the gospel are +commended by St. John, who took nothing from the Gentiles, lest they +should seem to preach in order to get money by it. + +1:8. We therefore ought to receive such: that we may be fellow helpers +of the truth. + +1:9. I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to +have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us. + +Diotrephes who loveth. . .This man seemeth to be in power, but not a +friend to the faithful; therefore this part of the letter might be an +admonition to him from the apostle. + +1:11. Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is +good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God. + +1:12. To Demetrius, testimony is given by all, and by the truth itself: +yea and we also give testimony. And thou knowest that our testimony is +true. + +1:13. I had many things to write unto thee: but I would not by ink and +pen write to thee. + +1:14. But I hope speedily to see thee: and we will speak mouth to +mouth. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Salute the friends +by name. + + + + +THE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JUDE + + + +St. Jude, who wrote this Epistle, was one of the twelve Apostles and +brother to St. James the Less. The time it was written is uncertain: +only it may be inferred from verse 17 that few or none of the Apostles +were then living, except St. John. He inveighs against the heresies and +wicked practices of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics, etc., +describing them and their leaders by strong epithets and similes, He +exhorts the faithful to contend earnestly for the faith first delivered +to them and to beware of heretics. + + + +Jude Chapter 1 + + +He exhorts them to stand to the faith first delivered to them and to +beware of heretics. + +1:1. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them +that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and +called. + +1:2. Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled. + +1:3. Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your +common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech +you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. + +1:4. For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long +ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God +into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:5. I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, +that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did +afterwards destroy them that believed not. + +1:6. And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their +own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, +unto the judgment of the great day. + +Principality. . .That is, the state in which they were first created, +their original dignity. + +1:7. As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, +having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, +were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. + +1:8. In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise +dominion and blaspheme majesty. + +Blaspheme majesty. . .Speak evil of them that are in dignity; and even +utter blasphemies against the divine majesty. + +1:9. When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended +about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of +railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee. + +Contended about the body, etc. . .This contention, which is no where +else mentioned in holy writ, was originally known by revelation, and +transmitted by tradition. It is thought the occasion of it was, that +the devil would have had the body buried in such a place and manner, as +to be worshipped by the Jews with divine honours. Command thee. . .or +rebuke thee. + +1:10. But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what +things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are +corrupted. + +1:11. Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after +the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have +perished in the contradiction of Core. + +Gone in the way, etc. . .Heretics follow the way of Cain, by murdering +the souls of their brethren; the way of Balaam, by putting a scandal +before the people of God, for their own private ends; and the way of +Core or Korah, by their opposition to the church governors of divine +appointment. + +1:12. These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without +fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about +by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by +the roots: + +1:13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: +wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever. + +1:14. Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, +saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints: + +Prophesied. . .This prophecy was either known by tradition, or from some +book that is since lost. + +1:15. To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for +all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and +for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God. + +1:16. These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to +their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring +persons, for gain's sake. + +1:17. But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have +been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: + +But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful, etc. . .He now exhorts the +faithful to remain steadfast in the belief and practice of what they +had heard from the apostles, who had also foretold that in aftertimes +(lit. in the last time) there should be false teachers, scoffing and +ridiculing all revealed truths, abandoning themselves to their passions +and lusts; who separate themselves from the Catholic communion by +heresies and schisms. Sensual men. . .carried away and enslaved by the +pleasures of the senses. + +1:18. Who told you that in the last time there should come mockers, +walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses. + +1:19. These are they who separate themselves, sensual men, having not +the Spirit. + +1:20. But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy +faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, + +1:21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our +Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting. + +Building yourselves upon your most holy faith. . .Raising by your +actions, a spiritual building, founded, 1st, upon faith; 2d, on the +love of God; 3d, upon hope, whilst you are waiting for the mercies of +God, and the reward of eternal life; 4th, joined with the great duty of +prayer. + +1:22. And some indeed reprove, being judged: + +1:23. But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have +mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal. + +And some indeed reprove being judged. . .He gives them another +instruction to practice charity in endeavouring to convert their +neighbour, where they will meet with three sorts of persons: 1st, With +persons obstinate in their errors and sins; these may be said to be +already judged and condemned; they are to be sharply reprehended, +reproved, and if possible convinced of their error. 2d, As to others +you must endeavour to save them, by pulling them, as it were, out of +the fire, from the ruin they stand in great danger of. 3d, You must +have mercy on others in fear, when you see them through ignorance of +frailty, in danger of being drawn into the snares of these heretics; +with these you must deal more gently and mildly, with a charitable +compassion, hating always, and teaching others to hate the carnal +garment which is spotted, their sensual and corrupt manners, that +defile both the soul and body. + +1:24. Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present +you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in +the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: + +1:25. To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be +glory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and +for all ages of ages. Amen. + +Now to him, etc. . .St. Jude concludes his epistle with this doxology of +praising God, and praying to the only God our Saviour, which may either +signify God the Father, or God as equally agreeing to all the three +persons, who are equally the cause of Christ's incarnation, and man's +salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who, being God from eternity, +took upon him our human nature, that he might become our Redeemer. + + + + +THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE + + + +In the first, second, and third chapters of this Book are contained +instructions and admonitions which St. John was commanded to write to +the seven bishops of the churches in Asia. And in the following +chapters, to the end, are contained prophecies of things that are to +come to pass in the Church of Christ, particularly towards the end of +the world, in the time of Antichrist. It was written in Greek, in the +island of Patmos, where St. John was in banishment by order of the +cruel emperor Domitian, about sixty-four years after our Lord's +Ascension. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 1 + + +St. John is ordered to write to the seven churches in Asia. The manner +of Christ's appearing to him. + +1:1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make +known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and +signified, sending by his angel to his servant John, + +The things which must shortly come;. . .and again it is said, ver. 3, +The time is at hand. . .This can not be meant of all the things +prophesied in the Apocalypse, where mention is made also of the day of +judgment, and of the glory of heaven at the end of the world. That some +things were to come to pass shortly, is evident, by what is said to the +Seven Churches, chap. 2 and 3, Or that the persecutions foretold should +begin shortly. Or that these words signified, that all time is short, +and that from the coming of Christ, we are now in the last age or last +hour. See 1 John 2.18. + +1:2. Who hath given testimony to the word of God and the testimony of +Jesus Christ, what things soever he hath seen. + +1:3. Blessed is he that readeth and heareth the words of this prophecy: +and keepeth those things which are written in it. For the time is at +hand. + +1:4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace be unto you +and peace, from him that is and that was and that is to come: and from +the seven spirits which are before his throne: + +1:5. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first +begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath +loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood + +1:6. And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father. To +him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen. + +1:7. Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him: +and they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall +bewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen. + +1:8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord +God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. + +I am Alpha and Omega. . .These are the names of the first and last +letters of the Greek alphabet, and signify the same as what follows: +The beginning and the end: the first cause and last end of all beings: +who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. . .These words +signify the true God only, and are here applied to our Lord and Saviour +Jesus Christ, who is to come again to judge the living and the dead. + +1:9. I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation and in the +kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island which is called +Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus. + +1:10. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a great +voice, as of a trumpet, + +1:11. Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven +churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus +and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. + +1:12. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being +turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks: + +1:13. And in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, one like to +the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt about +the paps with a golden girdle. + +1:14. And his head and his hairs were white as white wool and as snow. +And his eyes were as a flame of fire: + +1:15. And his feet like unto fine brass, as in a burning furnace. And +his voice as the sound of many waters. + +1:16. And he had in his right hand seven stars. And from his mouth came +out a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was as the sun shineth in his +power. + +1:17. And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid +his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last, + +1:18. And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever +and have the keys of death and of hell. + +1:19. Write therefore the things which thou hast seen: and which are: +and which must be done hereafter. + +1:20. The mystery of the seven stars, which thou sawest in my right +hand and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels +of the seven churches. And the seven candlesticks are the seven +churches. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 2 + + +Directions what to write to the angels or bishops of Ephesus, Smyrna, +Pergamus and Thyatira. + +2:1. Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith +he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the +midst of the seven golden candlesticks: + +2:2. I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou +canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say +they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars: + +2:3. And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not +fainted. + +2:4. But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first +charity. + +2:5. Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance +and do the first works. Or else I come to thee and will move thy +candlestick out of its place, except thou do penance. + +2:6. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites, +which I also hate. + +2:7. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life +which is in the paradise of my God. + +2:8. And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith +the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive: + +2:9. I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And +thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are +the synagogue of Satan. + +2:10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the +devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you +shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I +will give thee the crown of life. + +2:11. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches: He that shall overcome shall not be hurt by the second death. + +2:12. And to the angel of the church of Pergamus write: These things +saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword: + +2:13. I know where thou dwellest, where the seat of Satan is. And thou +holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith. Even in those days +when Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where +Satan dwelleth. + +2:14. But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there +them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a +stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit +fornication. + +2:15. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaites. + +2:16. In like manner do penance. If not, I will come to thee quickly +and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. + +2:17. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches: To him that overcometh I will give the hidden manna and will +give him a white counter: and in the counter, a new name written, which +no man knoweth but he that receiveth it. + +2:18. And to the angel of the church of Thyatira write: These things +saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like to a flame of fire and his +feet like to fine brass. + +2:19. I know thy works and thy faith and thy charity and thy ministry +and thy patience and thy last works, which are more than the former. + +2:20. But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the +woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce +my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to +idols. + +2:21. And I gave her a time that she might do penance: and she will not +repent of her fornication. + +2:22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed: and they that commit adultery +with her shall be in very great tribulation, except they do penance +from their deeds, + +2:23. And I will kill her children with death: and all the churches +shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts. And I will +give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say + +2:24. And to the rest who are at Thyatira: Whosoever have not this +doctrine and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say: I +will not put upon you any other burthen. + +2:25. Yet that which you have, hold fast till I come. + +2:26. And he that shall overcome and keep my words unto the end, I will +give him power over the nations. + +Power over the nations. . .This shews, that the saints, who are with +Christ our Lord in heaven, receive power from him to preside over +nations and provinces, as patrons; and shall come with him at the end +of the world to execute his will against those who have not kept his +commandments. + +2:27. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and as the vessel of a +potter they shall be broken: + +2:28. As I also have received of my Father. And I will give him the +morning star. + +2:29. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 3 + + +Directions what to write to Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. + +3:1. And to the angel of the church of Sardis write: These things saith +he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know thy +works, and that thou hast the name of being alive. And thou art dead. + +3:2. Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready +to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. + +3:3. Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and +heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will +come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will +come to thee. + +3:4. But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their +garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are +worthy. + +3:5. He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: +and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will +confess his name before my Father and before his angels. + +3:6. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches. + +3:7. And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things +saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he +that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth: + +3:8. I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, +which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength and hast +kept my word and hast not denied my name. + +3:9. Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are +Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and +adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee. + +3:10. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep +thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world +to try them that dwell upon the earth. + +3:11. Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no +man take thy crown. + +3:12. He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of +my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name +of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which +cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name. + +3:13. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches. + +3:14. And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write: These things +saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of +the creation of God: + +The Amen,. . .that is, the true one, the Truth itself; the Word and Son +of God. The beginning. . .that is, the principle, the source, and the +efficient cause of the whole creation. + +3:15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would +thou wert cold or hot. + +3:16. But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will +begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. + +3:17. Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of +nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor +and blind and naked. + +3:18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be +made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame +of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, +that thou mayest see. + +3:19. Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and +do penance. + +3:20. Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my +voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with +him: and he with me. + +3:21. To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with me in my +throne: as I also have overcome and am set down with my Father in his +throne. + +3:22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the +churches. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 4 + + +The vision of the throne of God, the twenty-four ancients and the four +living creatures. + +4:1. After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in +heaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a trumpet +speaking with me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things +which must be done hereafter. + +4:2. And immediately I was in the spirit. And behold, there was a +throne set in heaven, and upon the throne one sitting. + +4:3. And he that sat was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine +stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like +unto an emerald. + +4:4. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon +the seats, four and twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments. +And on their heads were crowns of gold. + +4:5. And from the throne proceeded lightnings and voices and thunders. +And there were seven lamps burning before the throne, which are the +seven Spirits of God. + +4:6. And in the sight of the throne was, as it were, a sea of glass +like to crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the +throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind. + +4:7. And the first living creature was like a lion: and the second +living creature like a calf: and the third living creature, having the +face, as it were, of a man: and the fourth living creature was like an +eagle flying. + +4:8. And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and +round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day +and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who +is and who is to come. + +4:9. And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and +benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and +ever: + +4:10. The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on +the throne and adored him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their +crowns before the throne, saying: + +4:11. Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and +power. Because thou hast created all things: and for thy will they were +and have been created. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 5 + + +The book sealed with seven seals is opened by the Lamb, who thereupon +receives adoration and praise from all. + +5:1. And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a +book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals. + +5:2. And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is +worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? + +5:3. And no man was able, neither in heaven nor on earth nor under the +earth, to open the book, nor to look on it. + +5:4. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book, +nor to see it. + +5:5. And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: behold the lion of +the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book +and to loose the seven seals thereof. + +5:6. And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four +living creatures and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing, as +it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven +Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. + +5:7. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that +sat on the throne. + +5:8. And when he had opened the book, the four living creatures and the +four and twenty ancients fell down before the Lamb, having every one of +them harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of +saints. + +The prayers of saints. . .Here we see that the saints in heaven offer up +to Christ the prayers of the faithful upon earth. + +5:9. And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to +take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain +and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and +tongue and people and nation: + +5:10. And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall +reign on the earth. + +5:11. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about +the throne and the living creatures and the ancients (and the number of +them was thousands of thousands), + +5:12. Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain is worthy to +receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honour and glory +and benediction. + +5:13. And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under +the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I +heard all saying: To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb, +benediction and honour and glory and power, for ever and ever. + +5:14. And the four living creatures said: Amen. And the four and twenty +ancients fell down on their faces and adored him that liveth for ever +and ever. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 6 + + +What followed upon opening six of the seals. + +6:1. And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals: and I +heard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of +thunder, saying: Come and see. + +6:2. And I saw: and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a +bow, and there was a crown given him, and he went forth conquering that +he might conquer. + +White horse. . .He that sitteth on the white horse is Christ, going +forth to subdue the world by his gospel. The other horses that follow +represent the judgments and punishment that were to fall on the enemies +of Christ and his church. The red horse signifies war; the black horse, +famine; and the pale horse (which has Death for its rider), plagues or +pestilence. + +6:3. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living +creature saying: Come and see. + +6:4. And there went out another horse that was red. And to him that sat +thereon, it was given that he should take peace from the earth: and +that they should kill one another. And a great sword was given to him. + +6:5. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living +creature saying: Come and see. And behold a black horse. And he that +sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand. + +6:6. And I heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living +creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two +pounds of barley for a penny: and see thou hurt not the wine and the +oil. + +6:7. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the +fourth living creature saying: Come and see. + +6:8. And behold a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was +Death. And hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four +parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine and with death and +with the beasts of the earth. + +6:9. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the +souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony +which they held. + +Under the altar. . .Christ, as man, is this altar, under which the souls +of the martyrs live in heaven, as their bodies are here deposited under +our altars. + +6:10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy +and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell +on the earth? + +Revenge our blood. . .They ask not this out of hatred to their enemies, +but out of zeal for the glory of God, and a desire that the Lord would +accelerate the general judgment, and the complete beatitude of all his +elect. + +6:11. And white robes were given to every one of them one; And it was +said to them that they should rest for a little time till their fellow +servants and their brethren, who are to be slain even as they, should +be filled up. + +6:12. And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there +was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: +and the whole moon became as blood. + +6:13. And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree +casteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind. + +6:14. And the heaven departed as a book folded up. And every mountain, +and the islands, were moved out of their places. + +6:15. And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the +rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves +in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: + +6:16. And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and +hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the +wrath of the Lamb. + +6:17. For the great day of their wrath is come. And who shall be able +to stand? + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 7 + + +The number of them that were marked with the seal of the living God and +clothed in white robes. + +7:1. After these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners +of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that they should not +blow upon the earth nor upon the sea nor on any tree. + +7:2. And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, +having the sign of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to +the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, + +7:3. Saying: Hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees, till we sign +the servants of our God in their foreheads. + +7:4. And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred +forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of +Israel. + +7:5. Of the tribe of Juda, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of +Ruben, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand +signed: + +7:6. Of the tribe of Aser, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of +Nephthali, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Manasses, twelve +thousand signed: + +7:7. Of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of +Levi, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand +signed: + +7:8. Of the tribe of Zabulon, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of +Joseph, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve +thousand signed. + +7:9. After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of +all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the +throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in +their hands. + +7:10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, +who sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb. + +7:11. And all the angels stood round about the throne and the ancients +and the four living creatures. And they fell down before the throne +upon their faces and adored God, + +7:12. Saying: Amen. Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, +honour and power and strength, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen. + +7:13. And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are +clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they? + +7:14. And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: +These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed +their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb. + +7:15. Therefore, they are before the throne of God: and they serve him +day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall +dwell over them. + +7:16. They shall no more hunger nor thirst: neither shall the sun fall +on them, nor any heat. + +7:17. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule +them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and +God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 8 + + +The seventh seal is opened. The angels with the seven trumpets. + +8:1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in +heaven, as it were for half an hour. + +8:2. And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God: and there +were given to them seven trumpets. + +8:3. And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden +censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer +of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the +throne of God. + +8:4. And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended +up before God from the hand of the angel. + +8:5. And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the +altar and cast it on the earth: and there were thunders and voices and +lightnings and a great earthquake. + +8:6. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared +themselves to sound the trumpet. + +8:7. And the first angel sounded the trumpet: and there followed hail +and fire, mingled with blood: and it was cast on the earth. And the +third part of the earth was burnt up: and the third part of the trees +was burnt up: and all green grass was burnt up. + +8:8. And the second angel sounded the trumpet: and, as it were, a great +mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea. And the third part +of the sea became blood. + +8:9. And the third part of those creatures died which had life in the +sea: and the third part of the ships was destroyed. + +8:10. And the third angel sounded the trumpet: and a great star fell +from heaven, burning as it were a torch. And it fell on the third part +of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters: + +8:11. And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part +of the waters became wormwood. And many men died of the waters, because +they were made bitter. + +8:12. And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of +the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part +of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day +did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner. + +8:13. And I beheld: and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the +midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe, Woe, Woe to the +inhabitants of the earth, by reason of the rest of the voices of the +three angels, who are yet to sound the trumpet! + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 9 + + +Locusts come forth from the bottomless pit. The vision of the army of +horsemen. + +9:1. And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall +from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the +bottomless pit. + +A star full. . .This may mean the fall and apostasy of great and learned +men from the true faith. Or a whole nation falling into error and +separating from the church, not having the sign of God in their +foreheads. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless +pit. . .That is, to the angel, not to the fallen star. To this angel was +given the power, which is here signified by a key, of opening hell. + +9:2. And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, +as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened +with the smoke of the pit. + +9:3. And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the +earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have +power. + +There came out locusts. . .These may be devils in Antichrist's time, +having the appearance of locusts, but large and monstrous, as here +described. Or they may be real locusts, but of an extraordinary size +and monstrous shape, such as were never before seen on earth, sent to +torment those who have not the sign (or seal) of God on their +foreheads. Some commentators by these locusts understand heretics, and +especially those heretics, that sprung from Jews, and with them denied +the divinity of Jesus Christ; as Theodotus, Praxeas, Noetus, Paul of +Samosata, Sabellius, Arius, etc. These were great enemies of the +Christian religion; they tormented and infected the souls of men, +stinging them like scorpions, with the poison of their heresies. Others +have explained these locusts, and other animals, mentioned in different +places throughout this sacred and mystical book, in a most absurd, +fanciful, and ridiculous manner; they make Abaddon the Pope, and the +locusts to be friars mendicant, etc. Here it is thought proper, not to +enter into any controversy upon that subject, as the inventors of these +fancies have been already answered, and fully refuted by many +controvertists: besides, those who might be inposed on by such +chimerical writers, are in these days much better informed. + +9:4. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of +the earth nor any green thing nor any tree: but only the men who have +not the sign of God on their foreheads. + +9:5. And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but +that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the +torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. + +9:6. And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And +they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them. + +9:7. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto +battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and +their faces were as the faces of men. + +9:8. And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as +lions. + +9:9. And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise +of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to +battle. + +9:10. And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in +their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had +over them + +9:11. A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is +Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans). + +9:12. One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more +hereafter. + +9:13. And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard a voice from +the four horns of the golden altar which is before the eyes of God, + +9:14. Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: Loose the four +angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates. + +9:15. And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, +and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men. + +9:16. And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times +ten thousand. And I heard the number of them. + +9:17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on +them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the +heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths +proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone. + +9:18. And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by +the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of +their mouths. + +9:19. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their +tails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with +them they hurt. + +9:20. And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did +not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not +adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, +which neither can see nor hear nor walk: + +9:21. Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their +sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 10 + + +The cry of a mighty angel. He gives John a book to eat. + +10:1. And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed +with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head: and his face, as the sun, +and his feet as pillars of fire. + +10:2. And he had in his hand a little book, open. And he set his right +foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon the earth. + +10:3. And he cried with a loud voice as when a lion roareth. And when +he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. + +10:4. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about +to write. And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up the +things which the seven thunders have spoken. And write them not. + +10:5. And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth +lifted up his hand to heaven. + +10:6. And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created +heaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things +which are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That +time shall be no longer. + +10:7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall +begin to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he +hath declared by his servants the prophets. + +Declared. . .literally evangelized, to signify the good tidings, +agreeable to the Gospel, of the final victory of Christ, and of that +eternal life, which should be the reward of the temporal sufferings of +the martyrs and faithful servants of God. + +10:8. And I heard a voice from heaven, again speaking to me and saying: +Go and take the book that is open, from the hand of the angel who +standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. + +10:9. And I went to the angel, saying unto him that he should give me +the book. And he said to me: Take the book and eat it up. And it shall +make thy belly bitter: but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. + +10:10. And I took the book from the hand of the angel and ate it up: +and it was in my mouth, sweet as honey. And when I had eaten it, my +belly was bitter. + +10:11. And he said to me: Thou must prophesy again to many nations and +peoples and tongues and kings. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 11 + + +He is ordered to measure the temple. The two witnesses. + +11:1. And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said +to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that +adore therein. + +11:2. But the court which is without the temple, cast out and measure +it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles. And the holy city they +shall tread under foot, two and forty months: + +11:3. And I will give unto my two witnesses: and they shall prophesy, a +thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. + +My two witnesses. . .It is commonly understood of Henoch and Elias. + +11:4. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks that stand +before the Lord of the earth. + +11:5. And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their +mouths and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, +in this manner must he be slain. + +11:6. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of +their prophecy: And they have power over waters, to turn them into +blood and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. + +11:7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that +ascendeth out of the abyss shall make war against them and shall +overcome them and kill them. + +11:8. And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which +is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt: where their Lord also was +crucified. + +11:9. And they of the tribes and peoples and tongues and nations shall +see their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer +their bodies to be laid in sepulchres. + +11:10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and +make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two +prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth. + +11:11. And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God +entered into them. And they stood upon their feet: and great fear fell +upon them that saw them. + +11:12. And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them: Come +up hither. And they went up to heaven in a cloud: and their enemies saw +them. + +11:13. And at that hour there was made a great earthquake: and the +tenth part of the city fell. And there were slain in the earthquake, +names of men, seven thousand: and the rest were cast into a fear and +gave glory to the God of heaven. + +11:14. The second woe is past: and behold the third woe will come +quickly. + +11:15. And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great +voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our +Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen. + +11:16. And the four and twenty ancients who sit on their seats in the +sight of God, fell on their faces and adored God, saying: + +11:17. We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast +and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, +and thou hast reigned. + +11:18. And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time +of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render +reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that +fear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have +corrupted the earth. + +11:19. And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his +testament was seen in his temple. And there were lightnings and voices +and an earthquake and great hail. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 12 + + +The vision of the woman clothed with the sun and of the great dragon +her persecutor. + +12:1. And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the +sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve +stars. + +A woman. . .The church of God. It may also, by allusion, be applied to +our blessed Lady. The church is clothed with the sun, that is, with +Christ: she hath the moon, that is, the changeable things of the world, +under her feet: and the twelve stars with which she is crowned, are the +twelve apostles: she is in labour and pain, whilst she brings forth her +children, and Christ in them, in the midst of afflictions and +persecutions. + +12:2. And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in +pain to be delivered. + +12:3. And there was seen another sign in heaven. And behold a great red +dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and on his heads seven +diadems. + +12:4. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast +them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready +to be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour +her son. + +12:5. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations +with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne. + +12:6. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place +prepared by God, that there they should feed her, a thousand two +hundred sixty days. + +12:7. And there was a great battle in heaven: Michael and his angels +fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels. + +12:8. And they prevailed not: neither was their place found any more in +heaven. + +12:9. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is +called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was +cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him. + +12:10. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come +salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his +Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused +them before our God day and night. + +12:11. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word +of the testimony: and they loved not their lives unto death. + +12:12. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe +to the earth and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, +having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. + +12:13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he +persecuted the woman who brought forth the man child. + +12:14. And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, +that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is +nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the +serpent. + +12:15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, +as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the +river. + +12:16. And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth +and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. + +12:17. And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war +with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have +the testimony of Jesus Christ. + +12:18. And he stood upon the sand of the sea. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 13 + + +Of the beast with seven heads and of a second beast. + +13:1. And I saw a beast coming up out the sea, having seven heads and +ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads, names +of blasphemy. + +A beast. . .This first beast with seven heads and ten horns, is probably +the whole company of infidels, enemies and persecutors of the people of +God, from the beginning to the end of the world. The seven heads are +seven kings, that is, seven principal kingdoms or empires, which have +exercised, or shall exercise, tyrannical power over the people of God; +of these, five were then fallen, viz.: the Egyptian, Assyrian, +Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian monarchies: one was present, viz., the +empire of Rome: and the seventh and chiefest was to come, viz., the +great Antichrist and his empire. The ten horns may be understood of ten +lesser persecutors. + +13:2. And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard: and his feet +were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And +the dragon gave him his own strength and great power. + +13:3. And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his +death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the +beast. + +One of his heads, etc. . .Some understand this of the mortal wound, +which the idolatry of the Roman empire (signified by the sixth head) +received from Constantine; which was, as it were, healed again by +Julian the Apostate. + +13:4. And they adored the dragon which gave power to the beast. And +they adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the beast? And who shall +be able to fight with him? + +13:5. And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and +blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months. + +13:6. And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to +blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven. + +His tabernacle, etc. . .That is, his church and his saints. + +13:7. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to +overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe and people and +tongue and nation. + +13:8. And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not +written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the +beginning of the world. + +Slain from the beginning, etc. . .In the foreknowledge of God; and +inasmuch as all mercy and grace, from the beginning, was given in view +of his death and passion. + +13:9. If any man have an ear, let him hear. + +13:10. He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he +that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the +patience and the faith of the saints. + +13:11. And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth: and he had +two horns, like a lamb: and he spoke as a dragon. + +Another beast. . .This second beast with two horns, may be understood of +the heathenish priests and magicians; the principal promoters both of +idolatry and persecution. + +13:12. And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight. +And he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first +beast, whose wound to death was healed. + +13:13. And he did great signs, so that he made also fire to come down +from heaven unto the earth, in the sight of men. + +13:14. And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which +were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that +dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which +had the wound by the sword and lived. + +13:15. And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast: and +that the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that +whosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain. + +13:16. And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, +freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on +their foreheads: + +13:17. And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the +character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. + +13:18. Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the +number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of +him is six hundred sixty-six. + +Six hundred sixty-six. . .The numeral letters of his name shall make up +this number. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 14 + + +Of the Lamb and of the virgins that follow him. Of the judgments that +shall fall upon the wicked. + +14:1. And I beheld: and lo a Lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him +an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his +Father written on their foreheads. + +14:2. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters and +as the voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as the +voice of harpers, harping on their harps. + +14:3. And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne and +before the four living creatures and the ancients: and no man could say +the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand who were purchased +from the earth. + +14:4. These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are +virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were +purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. + +14:5. And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without +spot before the throne of God. + +14:6. And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven, +having the eternal gospel, to preach unto them that sit upon the earth +and over every nation and tribe and tongue and people: + +14:7. Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord and give him honour, +because the hour of his judgment is come. And adore ye him that made +heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters. + +14:8. And another angel followed, saying: That great Babylon is fallen, +is fallen; which made all nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of +her fornication. + +Babylon. . .By Babylon may be very probably signified all the wicked +world in general, which God will punish, and destroy after the short +time of this mortal life: or it may signify every great city wherein +enormous sins and abominations are daily committed; and that when the +measure of its iniquities is full, the punishments due to its crimes +are poured on it. It may also be some city of the description in the +text, that will exist, and be destroyed, as here described, towards the +end of the world. + +14:9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If +any man shall adore the beast and his image and receive his character +in his forehead or in his hand, + +14:10. He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is +mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath: and shall be tormented +with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the +sight of the Lamb. + +14:11. And the smoke of their torments, shall ascend up for ever and +ever: neither have they rest day nor night, who have adored the beast +and his image and whoever receiveth the character of his name. + +14:12. Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of +God and the faith of Jesus. + +14:13. And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed +are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the +Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow +them. + +Die in the Lord. . .It is understood of the martyrs who die for the +Lord. + +14:14. And I saw: and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one +sitting like to the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold and +in his hand a sharp sickle. + +14:15. And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud +voice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle and reap, +because the hour is come to reap. For the harvest of the earth is ripe. + +14:16. And he that sat on the cloud thrust his sickle into the earth: +and the earth was reaped. + +14:17. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he +also having a sharp sickle. + +14:18. And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over +fire. And he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, +saying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the +vineyard of the earth, because the grapes thereof are ripe. + +14:19. And the angel thrust in his sharp sickle into the earth and +gathered the vineyard of the earth and cast it into the great press of +the wrath of God: + +14:20. And the press was trodden without the city, and blood came out +of the press, up to the horses' bridles, for a thousand and six hundred +furlongs. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 15 + + +They that have overcome the beast glorify God. Of the seven angels with +the seven vials. + +15:1. And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful: seven +angels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the +wrath of God. + +15:2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them +that had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, +standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God: + +15:3. And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the +canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord +God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages. + +15:4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou +only art holy. For all nations shall come and shall adore in thy sight, +because thy judgments are manifest. + +15:5. And after these things, I looked: and behold, the temple of the +tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. + +15:6. And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven +plagues, clothed with clean and white linen and girt about the breasts +with golden girdles. + +15:7. And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels +seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and +ever. + +15:8. And the temple was filled with smoke from the majesty of God and +from his power. And no man was able to enter into the temple, till the +seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 16 + + +The seven vials are poured out. The plagues that ensue. + +16:1. And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven +angels: Go and pour out the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the +earth. + +16:2. And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth. And +there fell a sore and grievous wound upon men who had the character of +the beast: and upon them that adored the image thereof. + +16:3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And there +came blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the +sea. + +16:4. And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the +fountains of waters. And there was made blood. + +16:5. And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O +Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged +these things. + +16:6. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou +hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy. + +16:7. And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God +Almighty, true and just are thy judgments. + +16:8. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was +given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire. + +16:9. And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the +name of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they +penance to give him glory. + +16:10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the +beast. And his kingdom became dark: and they gnawed their tongues for +pain. + +16:11. And they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains +and wounds: and did not penance for their works. + +16:12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river +Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared +for the kings from the rising of the sun. + +16:13. And I saw from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the +beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits +like frogs. + +16:14. For they are the spirits of devils, working signs: and they go +forth unto the kings of the whole earth, to gather them to battle +against the great day of the Almighty God. + +16:15. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and +keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. + +16:16. And he shall gather them together into a place which in Hebrew +is called Armagedon. + +Armagedon. . .That is, the hill of robbers. + +16:17. And the seventh angel poured out his vial upon the air. And +there came a great voice out of the temple from the throne, saying: It +is done. + +16:18. And there were lightnings and voices and thunders: and there was +a great earthquake, such an one as never had been since men were upon +the earth, such an earthquake, so great. + +16:19. And the great city was divided into three parts: and the cities +of the Gentiles fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God, +to give her the cup of the wine of the indignation of his wrath. + +16:20. And every island fled away: and the mountains were not found. + +16:21. And great hail, like a talent, came down from heaven upon men: +and men blasphemed God, for the plague of the hail: because it was +exceeding great. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 17 + + +The description of the great harlot and of the beast upon which she +sits. + +17:1. And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials +and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of +the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: + +17:2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And +they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her +whoredom. + +17:3. And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman +sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, +having seven heads and ten horns. + +17:4. And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, +and gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup +in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication. + +17:5. And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the +great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the +earth. + +A mystery. . .That is, a secret; because what follows of the name and +title of the great harlot is to be taken in a mystical sense. +Babylon. . .Either the city of the devil in general; or, if this place +be to be understood of any particular city, pagan Rome, which then and +for three hundred years persecuted the church; and was the principal +seat both of empire and idolatry. + +17:6. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with +the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, +with great admiration. + +17:7. And the angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee +the mystery of the woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which +hath the seven heads and ten horns. + +17:8. The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up +out of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants +on the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the +foundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is +not. + +The beast which thou sawest. . .This beast which supports Babylon, may +signify the power of the devil: which was and is not, being much +limited by the coming of Christ, but shall again exert itself under +Antichrist. The seven heads of this beast are seven mountains or +empires, instruments of his tyranny; of which five were then fallen. +(See chap. 13.1, and below, ver. 10.) The beast itself is said to be +the eighth, and is of the seven; because they all act under the devil, +and by his instigation, so that his power is in them all, yet so as to +make up, as it were, an eighth empire, distinct from them all. + +17:9. And here is the understanding that hath wisdom. The seven heads +are seven mountains, upon which the woman sitteth: and they are seven +kings. + +17:10. Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when +he is come, he must remain a short time. + +17:11. And the beast which was and is not: the same also is the eighth, +and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction. + +17:12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not +yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour +after the beast. + +Ten kings. . .Ten lesser kingdoms, enemies also of the church of Christ: +which, nevertheless, shall be made instruments of the justice of God +for the punishment of Babylon. Some understand this of the Goths, +Vandals, Huns, and other barbarous nations, that destroyed the empire +of Rome. + +17:13. These have one design: and their strength and power they shall +deliver to the beast. + +17:14. These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb shall overcome +them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are +with him are called and elect and faithful. + +17:15. And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the +harlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues. + +17:16. And the ten horns which thou sawest in the beast: These shall +hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her +flesh and shall burn her with fire. + +17:17. For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth +him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God +be fulfilled. + +17:18. And the woman which thou sawest is the great city which hath +kingdom over the kings of the earth. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 18 + + +The fall of Babylon. Kings and merchants lament over her. + +18:1. And after these things, I saw another angel come down from +heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his +glory. + +18:2. And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great +is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the +hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful +bird: + +18:3. Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her +fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with +her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of +her delicacies. + +18:4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, +my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive +not of her plagues. + +18:5. For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath +remembered her iniquities. + +18:6. Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto +her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath +mingled, mingle ye double unto her. + +18:7. As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so +much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: +I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. + +18:8. Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning +and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is +strong, who shall judge her. + +18:9. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and +lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over +her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: + +18:10. Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! +that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy +judgment come. + +18:11. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: +for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. + +18:12. Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of +pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine +wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of +precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble: + +18:13. And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine +and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and +chariots: and slaves and souls of men. + +18:14. And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee: +and all fat and goodly things are perished from thee. And they shall +find them no more at all. + +18:15. The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand +afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, + +18:16. And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with +fine linen and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious +stones and pearls. + +18:17. For in one hour are so great riches come to nought. And every +shipmaster and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many +as work in the sea, stood afar off, + +18:18. And cried, seeing the place of her burning, saying: What city is +like to this great city? + +18:19. And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and +mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made +rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour +she is made desolate. + +18:20. Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. +For God hath judged your judgment on her. + +18:21. And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great +millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as +this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found +no more at all. + +18:22. And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play +on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: +and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all +in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in +thee: + +18:23. And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: +and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at +all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all +nations have been deceived by thy enchantments. + +18:24. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of +all that were slain upon the earth. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 19 + + +The saints glorify God for his judgments on the great harlot. Christ's +victory over the beast and the kings of the earth. + +19:1. After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people +in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our +God. + +19:2. For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great +harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged +the blood of his servants, at her hands. + +19:3. And again they said: Alleluia. And her smoke ascendeth for ever +and ever. + +19:4. And the four and twenty ancients and the four living creatures +fell down and adored God that sitteth upon the throne, saying: Amen. +Alleluia. + +19:5. And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our +God, all ye his servants: and you that fear him, little and great. + +19:6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the +voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying: +Alleluia: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, hath reigned. + +19:7. Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the +marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself. + +19:8. And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine +linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications +of saints. + +19:9. And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the +marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are +true. + +19:10. And I fell down before his feet, to adore him. And he saith to +me: See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren who +have the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony of Jesus is +the spirit of prophecy. + +I fell down before, etc. . .St. Augustine (lib. 20, contra Faust, c. 21) +is of opinion, that this angel appeared in so glorious a manner, that +St. John took him to be God; and therefore would have given him divine +honour had not the angel stopped him, by telling him he was but his +fellow servant. St. Gregory (Hom. 8, in Evang.) rather thinks that the +veneration offered by St. John, was not divine honour, or indeed any +other than what might lawfully be given; but was nevertheless refused +by the angel, in consideration of the dignity to which our human nature +had been raised, by the incarnation of the Son of God, and the dignity +of St. John, an apostle, prophet, and martyr. + +19:11. And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that +sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he +judge and fight. + +19:12. And his eyes were as a flame of fire: and on his head were many +diadems. And he had a name written, which no man knoweth but himself. + +19:13. And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his +name is called: THE WORD OF GOD. + +19:14. And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses, +clothed in fine linen, white and clean. + +19:15. And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword, that +with it he may strike the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of +iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of +God the Almighty. + +19:16. And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF +KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. + +19:17. And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud +voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of +heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: + +19:18. That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes +and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that +sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and +of great. + +19:19. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, +gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with +his army. + +19:20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who +wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the +character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast +alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone. + +19:21. And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon +the horse, which proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were +filled with their flesh. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 20 + + +Satan is bound for a thousand years. The souls of the martyrs reign +with Christ in the first resurrection. The last attempts of Satan +against the church. The last judgment. + +20:1. And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the +bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. + +20:2. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the +devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. + +Bound him, etc. . .The power of Satan has been very much limited by the +passion of Christ: for a thousand years; that is, for the whole time of +the New Testament; but especially from the time of the destruction of +Babylon or pagan Rome, till the new efforts of Gog and Magog against +the church, towards the end of the world. During which time the souls +of the martyrs and saints live and reign with Christ in heaven, in the +first resurrection, which is that of the soul to the life of glory; as +the second resurrection will be that of the body, at the day of the +general judgment. + +20:3. And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a +seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the +thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little +time. + +20:4. And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given +unto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony +of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor +his image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their +hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. + +20:5. The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were +finished. This is the first resurrection. + +20:6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. +In these the second death hath no power. But they shall be priests of +God and of Christ: and shall reign with him a thousand years. + +20:7. And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be +loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations +which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall +gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of +the sea. + +20:8. And they came upon the breadth of the earth and encompassed the +camp of the saints and the beloved city. + +20:9. And there came down fire from God out of heaven and devoured +them: and the devil, who seduced them, was cast into the pool of fire +and brimstone, where both the beast + +20:10. And the false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever +and ever. + +20:11. And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from +whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found +for them + +20:12. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of +the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, +which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things +which were written in the books, according to their works. + +20:13. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell +gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one +according to their works. + +20:14. And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the +second death. + +20:15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast +into the pool of fire. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 21 + + +The new Jerusalem described. + +21:1. I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the +first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. + +The first heaven and the first earth was gone. . .being changed, not as +to their substance, but in their qualities. + +21:2. And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down +out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. + +21:3. And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the +tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall +be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God. + +21:4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death +shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any +more, for the former things are passed away. + +21:5. And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things +new. And he said to me: Write. For these words are most faithful and +true. + +21:6. And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega: the +Beginning and the End. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the +fountain of the water of life, freely. + +21:7. He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be +his God: and he shall be my son. + +21:8. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers +and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall +have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which +is the second death. + +21:9. And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of +the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come and I will shew +thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. + +21:10. And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he +shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, + +21:11. Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a +precious stone, as to the jasper stone even as crystal. + +21:12. And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in +the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names +of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. + +21:13. On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on +the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates. + +21:14. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them, +the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, + +21:15. And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to +measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall. + +21:16. And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is +as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed +for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the +breadth thereof are equal. + +21:17. And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty-four cubits, +the measure of a man, which is of an angel. + +The measure of a man, i.e., According to the measure of men, and used +by the angel. . .This seems to be the true meaning of these words. + +21:18. And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but +the city itself pure gold like to clear glass. + +21:19. And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with +all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the +second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald: + +21:20. The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, +chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a +chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst. + +21:21. And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every +several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was +pure gold, as it were, transparent glass. + +21:22. And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the +temple thereof, and the Lamb. + +21:23. And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine +in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the +lamp thereof. + +21:24. And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of +the earth shall bring their glory and honour into it. + +21:25. And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall +be no night there. + +21:26. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into +it. + +21:27. There shall not enter into it any thing defiled or that worketh +abomination or maketh a lie: but they that are written in the book of +life of the Lamb. + + + +Apocalypse Chapter 22 + + +The water and tree of life. The conclusion. + +22:1. And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, +proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. + +22:2. In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the +river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits +every month: the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations. + +22:3. And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God and +of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him. + +22:4. And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their +foreheads. + +22:5. And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of +the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall +enlighten then. And they shall reign for ever and ever. + +22:6. And he said to me: These words are most faithful and true. And +the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to shew his +servant the things which must be done shortly. + +22:7. And: Behold I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words +of the prophecy of this book. + +22:8. And I, John, who have heard and seen these things. And, after I +had heard and seen, I fell down to adore before the feet of the angel +who shewed me the things. + +22:9. And he said to me: See thou do it not. For I am thy fellow +servant, and of thy brethren the prophets and of them that keep the +words of the prophecy of this book. Adore God. + +22:10. And he saith to me: Seal not the words of the prophecy of this +book. For the time is at hand. + +For the time is at hand. . .That is, when compared to eternity, all time +and temporal things vanish, and are but of short duration. As to the +time when the chief predictions should come to pass, we have no +certainty, as appears by the different opinions, both of the ancient +fathers and late interpreters. Many think that most things set down +from the 4th chapter to the end, will not be fulfilled till a little +time before the end of the world. Others are of opinion, that a great +part of them, and particularly the fall of the wicked Babylon, happened +at the destruction of paganism, by the destruction of heathen Rome, and +its persecuting heathen emperors. Of these interpretations, see +Aleazar, in his long commentary; see the learned Bossnet, bishop of +Meaux, in his treatise on this Book; and P. Alleman, in his notes on +the same Apocalypse, tom. 12, who in his Preface says, that this, in a +great measure, may be now looked upon as the opinion followed by the +learned men. In fine, others think that St. John's design was in a +mystical way, by metaphors and allegories, to represent the attempts +and persecutions of the wicked against the servants of God, the +punishments that should in a short time fall upon Babylon, that is, +upon all the wicked in general: the eternal happiness and reward, which +God had reserved for the pious inhabitants of Jerusalem, that is, for +his faithful servants, after their short trials and the tribulations of +this mortal life. In the mean time we meet with many profitable +instructions and admonitions, which we may easily enough understand: +but we have no certainty when we apply these predictions to particular +events: for as St. Jerome takes notice, the Apocalypse has as many +mysteries as words, or rather mysteries in every word. Apocalypsis +Joannis tot habet Sacramenta quot verba--parum dixi, in verbis +singulis multiplices latent intelligentiae. Ep. ad Paulin, t. 4. p. +574. Edit. Benedict. + +22:11. He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let +him be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still: +and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still. + +Let him hurt still. . .It is not an exhortation, or license to go on in +sin; but an intimation, that how far soever the wicked may proceed, +their progress shall quickly end, and then they must expect to meet +with proportionable punishments. + +22:12. Behold, I come quickly: and my reward is with me, to render to +every, man according to his works. + +22:13. I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and +the End. + +22:14. Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: +that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the +gates into the city. + +22:15. Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and +servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie. + +22:16. I, Jesus, have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in +the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning +star. + +22:17. And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let +him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come. And he that will, +let him take the water of life, freely. + +22:18. For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the +prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall +add unto him the plagues written in this book. + +22:19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of +this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, +and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in +this book. + +22:20. He that giveth testimony of these things, saith: Surely, I come +quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. + +22:21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. + + + + + +APPENDICES + + + +These texts come from the 1582 Rhemes printing of the New Testament (see +the 'History' section at the top of the e-text). The primary sources +provide a glimpse both into the history of the Douay-Rheims version and +the English language itself. The reader will quickly notice that the +letter 'j' does not appear in the texts, rather 'i' functions either as a +vowel or a consonant. Likewise 'u' is not a distinct letter; it is +employed typographically in the lower-case in place of 'v' where not +starting a word. The letters 'u' and 'v' both function either as vowels +or consonants. The word 'vniuersity' demonstrates this rule. The letter +'w' is sometimes employed, but in most cases the earlier form of a +double-v (vv) appears instead. + +The transcriber has done his best to render the text accurately. Note +the relaxed spelling standards of the time; many variants appear. While +the errata section from the 1610 edition observed: "We haue also found +some other faultes of lesse importance; and feare there be more. But we +trust the reader may easely correct them, as they occurre." only obvious +errors have been amended. Where the transcriber has doubt between +whether an irregular spelling is either an error and a variant, the +printed text stands. 7-bit ASCII cannot fully represent the +typographical standards of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and +many special characters have been replaced with modern equivalents. +Where verse numbers stand in the margins of the printed texts, they have +been transferred to the body. + + + + + +BOOK FOR COMPARISON + + + + +THE CATHOLIKE EPISTLE OF IVDE THE APOSTLE. + + + +He exhorteth them to stand to their old faith, shevving them by examples, +that it is damnable not to continue and be constant: 8 inueighing +against the lecherie, blasphemie, apostasie, banketing of the heretikes, +14 and that their damnation vvas long foretold. 17 Catholikes therfore +to be vnmoueable, to reproue the obstinate, to recouer al not desperate, +to confirme the vveake, and to liue them selues vertuously and vvithout +mortal sinne, vvhich by Gods grace they may doe. + + +IVDE the seruant of IESVS Christ, and brother of Iames: to them that are +in God the Father beloued, and in IESVS Christ preserued, and called. +2 Mercie to you, and peace and charitie be accomplished. + 3 My deerest, taking al care to vvrite vnto you of your common +saluation, I thought it necessarie to vvrite vnto you: beseeching you to +contend for the faith once deliuered to the sainctes. 4 For there are +certaine men secretely entred in (vvhich vvere long ago prescribed vnto +this iudgement) impious, transferring the grace of our God into +riotousnes, and denying the onely Dominator, and our Lord IESVS Christ. +5 But I vvil admonish you, that once knovv al things, that IESVS, sauing +the people out of the land of AEgipt, secondly destroied them vvhich +beleeued not. 6 But the Angels vvhich kept not their pricipalitie, but +forsooke their owne habitation, he hath reserued vnder darkenesse in +eternal bondes vnto the iudgement of the great day. 7 As Sodom and +Gomorrhe, and the cities adioyning in like maner hauing fornicated, and +going after other flesh, vvere made an example, sustaining the paine of +eternal fire. 8 In like maner these also defile the flesh, and despise +dominion, & blaspheme maiestie. 9 Vvhen Micheal the Archangel, disputing +vvith the Diuel, made altercation for the body of Moyses: he durst not +inferre iudgment of blasphemie, but said, Our Lord 'commaund' thee. +10 But these, vvhat things so euer certes they are ignorant of, they +blaspheme: and vvhat things so euer naturally, as dumme beastes, they +knovv, in those they are corrupted. + 11 Vvo vnto them, 'vvhich' haue gone in the vvay of Cain: and vvith +the errour of Balaam, haue for revvard povvred out them selues, and haue +perished in the contradiction of Core. 12 These are in their bankets, +spottes, feasting together vvithout feare, feeding them selues, cloudes +vvithout vvater vvhich are caried about of vvindes, trees of autumne, +vnfruitful, tvvise dead, plucked vp by the rootes, 13 raging vvaues of +the sea, foming out their ovvne confusions, vvandering starres: to vvhom +the storme of darkenesse is reserued for euer. 14 And of these +propheceied Enoch, the seuenth from Adam, saying, Behold our Lord is come +in his holy thousandes, 15 to doe iudgement against al, and to reproue al +the impious, of al the vvorkes of their impietie vvherby they haue done +impiously, and of al the hard thinges vvhich impious sinners haue spoken +against him. 16 These are murmurers, ful of complaintes, vvalking +according to their ovvne desires, and their mouth speaketh pride, +admiring persons for gaine sake. + 17 But you my deerest, be mindeful of the vvordes vvhich haue been +spoken before by the Apostles of our Lord IESVS Christ, 18 vvho told you, +that in the last time shal come mockers, according to their ovvne desires +vvalking in impieties. 19 These are they vvhich segregate them selues, +sensual, hauing not the Spirit. 20 But you my deerest, building your +selues vpon 'our' most holy faith, in the holy Ghost, praying, 21 keepe +your selues in the loue of God, expecting the mercie of our Lord IESVS +Christ vnto life euerlasting. 22 And these certes reproue being iudged: +23 but them saue, pulling out of the fire. And on other haue mercie in +feare: hating also that vvhich is carnal, the spotted cote. + 24 And to him that is able to preserue you vvithout sinne, and to +sette you immaculate before the sight of his glorie in exultation in the +comming of our Lord IESVS Christ, 25 to the onely God our Sauiour by +IESVS Christ our Lord be glorie and magnificence, empire and power before +al worldes, and novv and for al vvorldes euermore. Amen. + + + + + +SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL + + + +As recorded in the title, the Douay-Rheims version is a translation +primarily from the Latin Vulgate. A brief selection from the preface to +the 1582 edition explains the reasons for this approach. Together with +the glossary the text shows the translators scholarly motivations, but +also provides a glimpse into the charged climate of the period. The +transcriber hopes he did a tolerable job in transliterating the Greek +words in the preface. The glossary contains words newly used in the +language of the day. Some were later dropped from the Challoner +revision, others have found common usage today. + + + + +THE PREFACE TO THE READER + + + +Treating of the causes vvhy this nevv Testament is translated according +to the auncient vulgar Latin text. + + +THE holy Bible long since translated by vs into English, and the old +Testament lying by vs for lacke of good meanes to publish the vvhole in +such sort as a vvorke of so great charge and importance requireth: vve +haue yet through Gods goodnes at length fully finished for thee (most +Christian reader) all the NEVV TESTAMENT, vvhich is the principal, most +profitable & comfortable peece of holy vvrite: and, as vvel for all +other institution of life and doctrine, as specially for deciding the +doubtes of these daies, more propre and pregnant then the other part not +yet printed. + + +NOVV TO GIVE thee also intelligence in particular, most gentle Reader, of +such thinges as it behoueth thee specially to knovv concerning our +Translation: Vve translate the old vulgar Latin text, not the common +Greeke text, for these causes. + +1. It is so auncient, that it vvas vsed in the Church of God aboue 1300 +yeres agoe, as appeareth by the fathers of those times. + +2. It is that (by the common receiued opinion and by al probabilitie) +vvhich S. Hierom aftervvard corrected according to the Greeke, by the +appointment of Damasus then Pope, as he maketh mention in his preface +before the foure Euangelistes, vnto the said Damasus: and 'in Catalogo +in fine,' and 'ep. 102.' + +3. Consequently it is the same vvhich S. Augustine so commendeth and +allovveth in an Epistle to S. Hierom. + +4. It is that, vvhich for the most part euer since hath been vsed in the +Churches seruice, expounded in sermons, alleaged and interpreted in the +Commentaries and vvritings of the auncient fathers of the Latin Church. + +5. The holy Councel of Trent, for these and many other important +considerations, hath declared and defined this onely of al other latin +translations, to be authentical, and so onely to be vsed and taken in +publike lessons, disputations, preachings, and expositions, and that no +man presume vpon any pretence to reiect or refuse the same. + +6. It is the grauest, sincerest, of greatest maiestie, least partialitie, +as being vvithout al respect of controuersies and contentions, specially +these of our time, as appeareth by those places vvhich Erasmus and others +at this day translate much more to the aduantage of the Catholike cause. + +7. It is so exact and precise according to the Greeke, both the phrase +and the word, that delicate Heretikes therfore reprehend it of rudenes. +And that it follovveth the Greeke far more exactly then the Protestants +translations, beside infinite other places, we appeale to these. +Tit. 3,14. 'Curent bonis operibus praeesse.' 'proissasthai.' Engl. bib. +1577, 'to mainteine good vvorks.' and Hebr. 10, 20. 'Viam nobis +initiauit,' 'enekainisen.' English Bib. 'he prepared.' So in these +vvordes, 'Iustificationes,' 'Traditiones,' 'Idola' &c. In al vvhich they +come not neere the Greeke, but auoid it of purpose. + +8. The Aduersaries them selues, namely Beza, preferre it before al the +rest. (Inpraefat. no. Test an. 1556.) And againe he saith, that the old +Interpreter translated very religiously. (Annot. in 1. Luc. v. 1.) + +9. In the rest, there is such diuersitie and dissension, and no end of +reprehending one an other, and translating euery man according to his +fantasie, that Luther said, If the vvorld should stand any long time, vve +must receiue againe (which he thought absurd) the Decrees of Councels, +for preseruing the vnitie of faith, because of so diuers interpretations +of the Scripture. And Beza (in the place aboue mentioned) noteth the +itching ambition of his fellovv-translators, that had much rather +disagree and dissent from the best, then seeme them selues to haue said +or vvritten nothing. And Bezas translation it self, being so esteemed in +our countrie, that the Geneua English Testaments be translated according +to the same, yet sometime goeth so vvide from the Greeke, and from the +meaning of the holy Ghost, that them selues which protest to translate +it, dare not folow it. For example, Luc. 3,36. They haue put these +wordes, 'The sonne of Cainan,' which he wittingly and wilfully left out: +and (Act. 1,14.) they say, 'Vvith the vvomen,' agreably to the vulgar +Latin: where he saith, 'Cum vxoribus,' 'vvith their vviues.' + +10. It is not onely better then al other Latin translations, but then the +Greeke text it self, in those places where they disagree. + +The proofe hereof is euident, because most of the auncient Heretikes were +Grecians, & therfore the Scriptures in Greeke were more corrupted by +them, as the auncient fathers often complaine. Tertullian noteth the +Greeke text which is at this day (1 Cor. 15,47) to be an old corruption +of Marcion the Heretike, and the truth to be as in our vulgar latin, +'Secundus homo de caelo caelestis,' 'The second man from heauen +heauenly.' So reade other auncient fathers, and Erasmus thinketh it must +needes be so, and Caluin him self folovveth in 'Instit. li. 2. c. 13. +parag. 2.' Againe S. Hierom noteth that the Greeke text (1 Cor. 7, 33) +which is at this day, is not the 'Apostolical veritie' or the true text +of the Apostle: but that which is in the vulgar Latin, 'Qui cum vxore +est, solicitus est quae sunt mundi, quomodo placeat vxori, & diuisus +est.' 'He that is vvith a vvife, is careful of vvorldly things, hovv he +may please his vvife, and is deuided or distracted.' The Ecclesiastical +historie called the Tripartite, noteth the Greeke text that now is +(1 Io. 4, 3) to be an old corruption of the auncient Greeke copies, by +the Nestorian Heretikes, & the true reading to be as in our vulgar Latin, +'Omnis spiritus qui soluit IESVM, Ex Deo non est.' 'Euery spirit that +dissolueth IESVS, is not of God:' and Beza confesseth that Socrates in +his Ecclesiastical historie readeth so in the Greeke. + +But the proofe is more preganant out of the Aduersaires them selues. +They forsake the Greeke text as corrupted, and translate according to the +vulgar Latin, namely Beza and his scholers the English translatours of +the Bible, in these places. Hebr. chap. 9. vers. 1. saying, 'The first +couenant,' for that vvhich is in the Greeke. 'The first tabernacle.' +vvhere they put, 'couenant,' not as of the text, but in an other letter, +as to be vnderstood, according to the vulgar Latin, vvhich most sincerely +leaueth it out altogether, saying, 'Habuit quidem & prius iustificationes +&c.' 'The former also in deede had iustifications &c.' Againe, Ro. 11, +vers. 21. They translate not according to the Greek text, 'Tempori +seruientes,' 'seruing the time,' vvhich Beza sayth must needes be a +corruption: but according to the vulgar Latin, 'Domino seruientes,' +'seruing our Lord.' Againe, Apoc. 11, vers. 2. they translate not the +Greeke text, 'Atrium quod intra templum est,' 'the court vvhich is +vvithin the temple:' but cleane contrarie, according to the vulgar +Latin, vvhich Beza saith is the true reading, 'Atrium quod est foris +templum,' 'the court vvhich is vvithout the temple.' Onely in this last +place, one English Bible of the yere 1562, folovveth the errour of the +Greeke. Againe, 2 Tim. 23 vers. 14. they adde, 'but,' more then is in +the Greeke, to make the sense more commodious and easie, according as it +is in the vulgar Latin. Againe, Ia. 5, 12. they leaue the Greeke, and +folovv the vulgar Latin, saying, 'lest you fall into condemnation.' "I +doubt not (saith Beza) but this is the true and sincere reading, and I +suspect the corruption in the Greeke came thus &c." It vvere infinite to +set dovvne al such places, vvhere the Aduersaries (specially Beza) folovv +the old vulgar Latin and the Greeke copie agreable therevnto, condemning +the Greeke text that novv is, of corruption. + + + + +HARD VVORDES EXPLICATED + + + +The explication of certaine vvordes in this translation, not familiar to +the vulgar reader, vvhich might not conueniently be vttered otherwise. + + +A + +Abstracted. Dravven avvay. [James 1:14] +Acquisition. Getting, purchasing. [Eph 1:14] +Aduent. The comming. [Matt 24:27] +Adulterating. Corrupting. [2 Cor 2:17] The Greeke vvord signifieth to + to make commoditie of the vvord of God, as vulgar Vinteners do of their + vvine. Vvhereby is expressed the peculiar trade of al Heretikes, and + exceding proper to the Protestants, that so corrupt Scriptures + by mixture of their ovvne phantasies, by false translations, glosses, + colorable and pleasant commentaries, to deceiue the tast of the simple, + as tauerners and tapsters do, to make their vvines salable by manifold + artificial deceites. The Apostles contrarievvise, as all Catholikes, + deliuer the Scriptures and vtter the vvord of God sincerely and + entirely, in the same sense and sort as the fathers left them to the + Church, interpreting them by the same Spirit by vvhich they vvere + vvritten or spoken. +Agnition. Knovvledge or acknovvledging. [Philemon 1:6] +Allegorie. A Mystical speache, more then the bare letter. [Gal 4:24] + Here vve learne that the holy Scriptures haue beside the litteral + sense, a deeper spiritual and more principal meaning: which is not + only to be taken of the holy vvordes, but of the very factes and + persons reported: both the speaches and the actions being + significatiue ouer and aboue the letter. +Amen. What is it vvhen our Lord saith, Amen, amen? He doth much commend + and vrge the thing he so vttereth, doubling it. Amen in Hebrue + signifieth verum, a truth. [John 8:34] +Anathema. By vse of Scripture is either that vvhich by separation from + profane vse, and by dedication to God, is holy, dreadful, and not + vulgarly to be touched: or contrarievvise, that which is reiected, + seuered or abandoned from God, as cursed and detested, and therfore is + to be auoided. [Rom 9:3] +Archisynagogue. Cheefe gouerner of a Synagogue. [Mark 5:22] +Assist. Signifieth the Angels standing and attending, alvvaies readie + to doe their ministerie. [Luke 1:19] +Assumption. Christs departure out of this vvorld by his death and + Ascension. [Luke 9:51] +Azymes. Vnleauened bread. [Matt 26:17] + + +C + +Calumniate. By this vvord is signified violent oppression by vvord or + deede. [Luke 3:14] +Catechizeth, and, Catechized. He catechizeth that teacheth the + principles of the Christian faith: and they that heare and learne, + are catechized, and are therfore called often in the Annotations, + Catechumens. [Gal 6:6] +Character. A marke or stampe. [Apoc 13:16] +Commessations. Immoderate bankets, and belly cheere, vvith vvanton + riotousnes. [Gal 5:21] +Condigne. Comparable. [Rom 8:18] +Contristate. This vvord signifieth to make heauie and sad. [Eph 4:30] +Cooperate. Signifieth vvorking vvith others, likevvise Cooperation, + Cooperatours. [Rom 8:28] +Corbana. This Corbana was a place about the Temple, which receiued the + peoples gifts or offerings. [Matt 27:6] + + +D + +Depositum. The vvhole doctrine of our Christianity being taught by the + Apostles, and deliuered to their successors, and comming dovvne from + one Bishop to an other, is called the Depositum, as it vvere a thing + laid into their hands, and committed vnto them to keepe. Vvhich + because it passeth from hand to hand, from age to age, from Bishop to + Bishop vvithout corruption, change, or alteration, is al one vvith + Tradition, and is the truth giuen vnto the holy Bishops to keepe, and + not to lay men. [1 Tim 6:20] It may signifie also, Gods graces giuen + vs to keepe. A great comfort to al Christians, that euery of their + goode deedes and sufferings for Christ, and al the vvorldly losses + susteined for defense or confession of their faith, be extant vvith + God, and kept as depositum, to be repaied or receiued againe in heauen. + [2 Tim 1:12,14] +Didrachme. These didrachmes were peeces of money which they payed for + tribute. [Matt 17:23,24] +Dominical day. Sunday. [Apoc 1:10] It is to be marked, that this holy + day by the Apostles tradition also, vvas named Dominicus dies, our + Lordes day, or the Dominike, vvhich is also an old Ecclesiastical vvord + in our language, for the name Sunday is a heathenish calling, as al + other of the vveeke daies be in our language. +Donaries. Giftes offered to God for his Temple, &c. [Luke 21:5] + + +E + +Euacuated from Christ. That is, Made voide and hauing no part vvith + him. [Gal 5:4] The scandal of the crosse euacuated, that is, made + voide, cleane taken avvay. [Gal 5:11] +Euangelize. Signifieth such preaching of good tidinges, as concerneth + the Gospel. How is it possible to expresse Euangelizo, but as vve do, + Euangelize? for Euangelium being the Gospel, what is, Euangelizo or to + Euangelize, but to shew the glad tydings of the Gospel, of the time of + grace, of al Christs benefites? Al which signification is lost, by + translating as the English bibles do, "I bring you good tydings." +Eunuches. Gelded men. +Euro-aquilo. A north-eastvvinde. [Acts 27:14] +Exinanited. Abased excedingly. [Phil 2:7] + + +G + +Gratis. An vsual vvord to signifie, for nothing, freely, for + Godamercie, vvithout desert. + + +H + +Holocauste. A kinde of sacrifice vvhere al vvas burnt in the honour + of God. [Hebr 10:6] +Hostes. Sacrifices. [1 Cor 10:18] + + +I + +Inuocated. Called vpon, praied vnto. [Acts 9:21] Hereof vve say, + Inuocation of Saincts, and to inuocate. +Issue. Good euent. [1 Cor 10:13] +Iustice. Taken in the nevv Testament, not as it is contrarie to vvrong + or iniurie, but for that qualitie vvhereof a man is iust and + iustified. [Rom 4:9] + + +N + +Neophyte. Neophytus is he that vvas lately christened or nevvely + planted in the mystical body of Christ. [1 Tim 3:6] + + +P + +Paraclete. By interpretation is either a comforter, or an aduocate: and + therfore to translate it by any one of them only, is perhaps to + abridge the sense of this place. [John 14:16] +Parasceue. The Ievves Sabboth-eue, Good friday. [Mark 15:42] + Parasceue is as solemne a word for the Sabboth eue, as Sabboth is for + the Iewes seuenth day, and now among Christians much more solemner, + taken for Good-friday onely. These wordes then we thought it far + better to keepe in the text, and to tel their signification in the + margent or in a table for that purpose, then to disgrace bothe the text + and them with translating them. +Pasche. Easter, and the Paschal lambe. [Luke 22:1] +Pentecost. Vvhitsuntide, &, the space of fiftie daies. +Prefinition. A determination before. [Eph 3:11] +Prepuce. The foreskinne not circumcised, & therfore signifieth the + Gentiles: as circumcision, the Ievves and their state. [Rom 2:25] +Prescience. Foreknovvledge. [Acts 2:23] +Preuaricatour. Transgressor: and preuarication, transgression. + [Rom 2:25] +Loaues of Proposition. So called, because they vvere proposed and set + vpon the table in the Temple, before God. [Matt 12:4] + + +R + +Repropitiate the sinnes. That is, make a reconciliation for them. + [Heb 2:17] +Resolution. The separation of the body and the soule, the departing out + of this life. [2 Tim 4:6] +Resuscitate the grace. That is, Raise, quicken, renew and reviue the + grace vvhich othervvise languisheth and decaieth. [2 Tim 1:6] + + +S + +Sabbatisme. A time of resting and ceasing from labours. [Heb 4:9] +Sacrament. For mysterie. [Eph 1:9] +Sancta Sanctorum. The holie of holies, that is, the inmost and holiest + place of the Ievves Temple, as it vvere the Chauncel. [Heb 9:3] +Superedified. Builded vpon Christ the principal stone. [1 Pet 2:5] + + +T + +Tetrarch. Gouernour or Prince of the 4 part of a countrie. [Matt 14:1] +Thrones. An higher order of Angels. [Col 1:16] + + +V + +Victims. Sacrifice. 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